Disney star and singer Miley Cyrus recently revealed her battle with identity crisis she suffered after playing the role of Hannah Montana.
Cyrus, 28, shared on Spotify’s Rock This with Allison Hagendorf podcast on Friday that the role had a big impact on her sense of self.
Miley starred as Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel for four seasons from 2006 to 2011.
Cyrus went on to say that Hannah was “a character almost as often as I was myself, and actually, the concept of the show is that when you’re this character, when you have this alter ego, you’re valuable. You’ve got, like, millions of fans, you’re the biggest star in the world, and then the concept was that when I looked like myself when I didn’t have the wig on anymore, no one cared about me, I wasn’t a star anymore. So, that was drilled into my head. Like, without being Hannah Montana, no one cares about you. And that was the concept.”
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Miley Cyrus said she really had to break that mentality, adding that her album “Bangerz” was her first step into finding her identity outside of the Disney channel character.
“And so I really had to break that. I think that’s maybe why I almost created a characterized version of myself at times. I never created a character where it wasn’t me. Was aware of how people saw me and I maybe played into it a little bit.”
In a December interview with Rolling Stone, Cyrus said that she “felt like I was never going to amount to the success of Hannah Montana.” She added that she had to evolve because the character was larger than life.
“Really, Hannah Montana was not a character. The concept of the show, it’s me. I’ve had to really come to terms with that and not be third-person about it.” She said.
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