Overview

• Cyrus revealed on the Every Single Album podcast that she disguised her drug expenses as “vintage clothes” purchases of up to $15,000 to evade her accountant’s scrutiny
• She admitted those substances were crucial to her creative process on her 2015 album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz but warned she wouldn’t recommend others push their limits the same way
• The singer has remained sober since 2020 following vocal cord surgery and says sobriety has changed her songwriting by removing the spontaneous inspirations she found under the influence
• Her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, was released on May 30, 2025, featuring collaborations with Naomi Campbell, Brittany Howard, and Maxx Morando, and was accompanied by a self-directed 55-minute film
• The Something Beautiful film premiered at Tribeca over June 7–8 and is set for one-night theatrical screenings on June 12 in the US and Canada and on June 27 internationally