Miley Cyrus has admitted the some of lyrics in her song WTF Do I Know are about her ex-husband Liam Hemworth – including the words ‘I don’t even miss you’.
The pop star, 28, addressed speculation surrounding the song during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show earlier this week and confirmed it was about their split.
Howard quizzed Miley on particular lyrics in the song, which read: ‘You want an apology? Not from me / I had to leave you in your own misery / So tell me, baby, am I wrong that I moved on? / And I, and I don’t even miss you.’
‘WTF Do I Know’: Miley Cyrus has admitted the some of lyrics in her song WTF Do I Know are about her ex-husband Liam Hemworth – including the words ‘I don’t even miss you’
Miley candidly revealed the words she wrote were about her ex-husband, 30, but admitted that sometimes it is only what she feels for a ‘brief moment’.
She said: ‘It’s not that it’s how I feel every second of the day, it’s how I felt for a moment. That works as some sort of protective armour and there’s a sense of myself that does feel that way…
‘A record is all of these mason jars filled with something that lights up, that you catch something that is magical for a moment, but it doesn’t have to be you all the time.’
Speculation: The pop star, 28, addressed speculation surrounding the song during an appearance on the Howard Stern Show earlier this week and confirmed it was about their split (pictured with Liam in February 2019)
She added: ‘Sometimes you miss people more than others, and sometimes, things get easier.
Time kind of heals all, but that was at a time where I felt really strong. And then some days I don’t.’
Miley also opened up about the reason for the end of her marriage, as she revealed there was ‘too much conflict’ with Liam, but admitted she still loves him ‘very very much.’
The singer said: ‘There was too much conflict….When I come home, I want to be anchored by someone. I don’t get off on drama or fighting.’
Miley and Liam were married in an intimate ceremony in December 2018, before splitting only months later in August 2019.
‘I don’t get off on drama or fighting’: Miley told Howard Stern she had ‘too much conflict’ in her marriage to ex Liam but still ‘loves him very, very much’ (pictured in 2018)
She revealed that she and the Aussie actor never planned on getting married after a 10-year on-off relationship.
But said: ‘We were together since 16. “Our house burned down, [in November 2018].
‘We had been like, engaged – I don’t know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but when we lost our house in Malibu – which if you listen to my voice pre- and post-fire, they’re very different so that trauma really affected my voice.
She said: ‘I was actually in South Africa, so I couldn’t come home, and like, my animals were tied to a post at the beach. I lost everything. I had polaroids of Elvis, like front row, passed on from, I got a couple grandmas to give me their Elvis polaroids. I always became friends with my friends’ grandmas so I could get the goods from the artists I love.
Just married: Miley revealed she and Liam had never planned on getting married after a 10-year on-off relationship but losing their home to a fire in 2018 made her reassess things
‘I had so much and it was all gone, every song I had ever written was in that house.
‘Every photograph of me that my parents had given to me, all my scripts, I lost everything.
‘And so in trying to put that back together, instead of going, “Oh, nature kind of did something I couldn’t do for myself; it forced me to let go,” I ran toward the fire.’
Miley told Stern: ‘Which is not abnormal, a lot of animals do this and end up dying, like deers run into the forest.
You’re attracted to that heat and me being an intense person and not wanting to sit with it, and not wanting to go, you know, “What could be purposeful about this?” I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him.’
But the We Can’t Stop singer insisted she will ‘always’ love Liam, saying: ‘And I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will.’
‘I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him, and I really do and did love him very, very, very much,’ she said. Pictured together at Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XVIII in Phoenix in March 2012
In August 2019, Miley’s rep told PEOPLE: ‘Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time,’ ‘Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers.’
Miley also spoke about her relationship with the Isn’t It Romantic actor on the Call Her Daddy podcast in August.
She said that when they finally decided to split for good, it felt ‘like a death’.
‘I had a very public, very big breakup that was over a 10-year span of a relationship… It’s like a death when you lose a love that deep. It feels like a death,’ she confessed.
She added: ‘Honestly, sometimes [death] even feels easier because [with a breakup] the person is still walking on the earth.’
Since their split, Liam has been in a relationship with Australian model Gabriella Brooks, who he began dating in December last year.
Meanwhile, Miley enjoyed a whirlwind relationship with Brody Jenner’s ex-wife, Kaitlynn Carter, but they split in September 2019, after just a month.
Miley then began dating Australian singer Cody Simpson in October 2019, before splitting in August this year.
Short-lived: Miley and Liam, 30, were married in an intimate ceremony in December 2018, before splitting only months later in August 2019. Pictured together at the Australians In Film Awards & Benefit Dinner in LA in June 2012