Miley Cyrus is reflecting on her old strategy for hiding the money she spent on drugs from her accountant.
While reminiscing about making her 2015 album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, the “Flowers” singer said using drugs was a “super-important part” of her creative process.
“The drugs were the biggest cost,” Cyrus revealed in a new interview on The Ringer’s Every Single Album podcast. “To hide those from my accountant, we called them ‘vintage clothes.’ And so she would get these checks of thousands of dollars’ worth of vintage clothes.”
Cyrus said her accountant would then ask to see the merchandise the singer had purchased. “Every time she saw me, she’d be like, ‘Where’s that $15,000 original John Lennon T-shirt that you bought?'” she recalled. “It’s like, ‘Oh, it’s upstairs. Would you like some?’ So I bought a lot of vintage clothes that year.”
The pop star added that her approach to songwriting is different when she’s not taking drugs. “I feel like the things that I was able to find — I can write songs as well [while sober], but I can’t find things like ‘Tangerine.'”
After saying sobriety is “like my god” in a recent interview with Zane Lowe, Cyrus walked back her statement on Every Single Album. “I think that was a little dramatic,” she said of the remark. “That was a little dramatic, because someone used that as a quote, and I was like, ‘Okay, I wouldn’t say it’s my god. I’m not gonna go into — I don’t do meetings or anything.”
Cyrus also said that after Dead Petz struggled to find commercial success and her 2017 follow-up album, Younger Now, didn’t match the popularity of 2013’s Bangerz, she felt pressure to perform more songs about drugs and alcohol on her 2019 EP, She Is Coming.
“They ended up belittling me and putting me into songs like ‘Unholy,’ which is a song I don’t like about being drunk and about being high,” she said. “I was sober at that time, which made me feel f—ing like a big fraud.”
The singer went on to say that an associate even dissuaded her from publicizing her sobriety. “I remember at the time someone that shall not be named was like, ‘It’s okay if you’re sober, but just don’t tell anybody, because the kids won’t think you’re cool anymore,'” she said. “‘Because when you had hits during Bangerz, your whole thing was being f—ed-up.’ And I was like, ‘But everyone was mad at me! And you particularly were mad at me!'”
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Cyrus’ new album, Something Beautiful, is out now. Listen to her full Every Single Album interview above.
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