Miley Cyrus opened up about suffering from an ovarian cyst rupture while hosting her New Year’s Eve Party special in 2023.
“I had a pretty traumatic experience on a show that I was doing with Lorne [Michaels] when I was doing my New Year’s show,” Cyrus, 32, said during a Wednesday, May 21, interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “I had a medical emergency. I had an ovarian cyst rupture.”
An ovarian cyst rupture is when a fluid-filled sac on or inside an ovary bursts open and causes severe pain and bleeding inside the pelvis, per the Mayo Clinic. At the time, Cyrus “didn’t know exactly what was going on,” so she proceeded with the show. Cyrus hosted alongside godmother Dolly Parton and performed duets with Parton, Sia and Paris Hilton.
“It was pretty traumatic because it was extremely excruciating and I did the show anyway,” Cyrus recalled. “But it was really, really hard on me.”
The health scare isn’t the only challenge Cyrus overcame. During her chat with Lowe, 51, she shared the importance of maintaining her sobriety.
“I’ve learned this about myself over the years. The sobriety is like, that’s like my God,” the singer said. “I need it, I live for it. I mean that it’s changed my entire life.”
Cyrus stopped using marijuana in 2017 and drinking alcohol in 2020. While speaking to 51-year-old Lowe, Cyrus recalled the last time they spoke back in November 2020.
“When you came to my psychedelic house that was painted black in hidden hills, where everything is like all white homes and equestrian. And then I painted mine black and rainbow … I no longer live there,” she said. “But I was happy you came and saw me in that space. And I was thinking about it a lot today as I was on my way here, because I was so close to who’s sitting here right now. But there was just life. It had more to teach me. It had more lessons.”
During their last chat, Cyrus confessed that she “fell off” her sobriety journey at the time. However, Cyrus doesn’t regret the mistake since it led her to where she is now.
“I know I needed to fall one more time. And I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here. And there were times in that section from where I’ve seen you before,” she said. “And there were times in that section from where I’ve seen you last time and now that they hurt, I’m not proud of them. Definitely not my best moments, not some of my best work, any of that.”
Cyrus added that the struggle led her to write “Flowers,” for which she won her first Grammy.
“It all led me to writing ‘Flowers,’ which then was some sort of just key right into the lock of all healing,” she said. “It healed me so much.”
