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Learn how love, loss, trauma and family drama marked Miley Cyrus<\/strong><\/a>\u2019 transformation<\/a> from wild child to first-time Grammy winner<\/a>.<\/p>\n Even at 31, Miley Cyrus still delights in shocking audiences. After winning her first-ever Grammy \u2014 Best Pop Solo Performance for her hit song \u201cFlowers\u201d \u2014 on February 4, Miley took the stage to perform the post-breakup self-love anthem live on TV for the first time<\/a>, pausing mid-chorus to chastise the audience for not singing along: \u201cWhy you acting like you don\u2019t know this song,\u201d she scolded them. She then ended her night with a second Grammy, winning for Record of the Year, before sharing a little TMI as she wrapped up her acceptance speech. \u201cI don\u2019t think I forgot anyone,\u201d Miley said, \u201cbut I might\u2019ve forgotten underwear\u2026 bye!\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s classic Miley. Bold and unafraid of controversy, the singer has embraced her reputation for being outspoken and unapologetic since stepping away from her old life as a Disney child star. But despite her penchant for oversharing, there\u2019s far more to Miley than people know. \u201cWhile Miley may seem like an open book, she\u2019s very mysterious when it comes to certain things in her life,\u201d a source exclusively tells Life & Style<\/em>. Though the Hannah Montana<\/em> alum \u201cis healthier than ever today,\u201d adds the source, she\u2019s still working through a lot, from health problems to family drama. \u201cHer battles with sobriety were worse than anyone knows, and her love life is more complicated than she\u2019s let on. In fact, it took her a very long time to heal after heartbreak following her divorce\u201d from Liam Hemsworth<\/strong>, 34, says the source. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot no one knows about her.\u201d<\/p>\n UPS & DOWNS<\/strong> Miley \u2014 who also suffers from tachycardia, a non-life-threatening condition that makes her heart beat faster than normal to the point she\u2019s always \u201cthinking about my heart,\u201d she\u2019s shared \u2014 then fell off the wagon during the Covid-19 pandemic. But she\u2019s tried not to beat herself up about her on-off use. \u201cEveryone has to do what is best for them,\u201d she\u2019s said.<\/p>\n It was perhaps harder for her to follow that advice when ending things with Liam. The duo wed in 2018 after a decade-long on-off relationship. However, the marriage ended just eight months later. Their final communication was over a text. \u201cThe last thing she said to him was that she\u2019d always love him; it was heart-wrenching,\u201d the source explains to Life & Style<\/em>. Miley then faced criticism for dating someone else right away. \u201cThere\u2019s a stigma of coldness for a woman who actually, really moves on,\u201d she\u2019s said. But that\u2019s how she copes. \u201cI\u2019ve gone through a lot of trauma,\u201d she explained in 2020, recounting facing losing her Malibu home to a wildfire, her divorce and her grandmother\u2019s death in a short period. \u201cI didn\u2019t spend too much time crying over it, and it wasn\u2019t because I was cold or trying to avoid feeling something, but it was just because I wasn\u2019t going to change it. I tried to just continue to be active in what I can control, otherwise, you just start feeling like you\u2019re trapped.\u201d<\/p>\n Miley heals \u201cthrough travel and meeting new people,\u201d she\u2019s explained. \u201cAs you lose one person, another person comes into your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her relationships have done a number on her \u2014 including her roller-coaster romance with drugs. Nearly a decade after she made headlines for smoking salvia leaves<\/a> from a bong the week of her 18th birthday, Miley \u2014 who\u2019s since lauded marijuana and psychedelics like ecstasy, mushrooms (which, combined with \u201ca lot of weed\u201d once gave her \u201ca full anxiety attack,\u201d she\u2019s admitted) and ayahuasca \u2014 revealed she stopped drinking and using ahead of her 27th b-day because she was afraid of joining stars like Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Jimi Hendrix in the infamous \u201c27 Club\u201d of musicians who died at that age because of addiction issues.<\/p>\n