Miley Cyrus reveals huge lie she told Liam Hemsworth about her virginity for nearly 10 years
Miley Cyrus has revealed that she kept a secret about her virginity from her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth, for nearly a decade.
The former couple first met as teenagers on the set of The Last Song in 2009, where their on-screen romance turned into a real-life relationship.
They dated on and off for years before getting engaged, breaking up, and ultimately reconciling in 2016.
The couple then tied the knot two years later in December 2018, but their marriage lasted less than a year before Hemsworth filed for divorce in August 2019.
During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the Hannah Montana star opened up about her early experiences with attraction and relationships. The 32-year-old shared that she was “attracted to girls way before [she] was ever attracted to guys”.
“I was like 11 or 12, my friends were starting to tell me what they were doing with guys and I didn’t really understand it, so I got most of my girlfriends to hook up with me,” she said. “The first time I ever hooked up with anyone was with a girl – two of them.”
She revealed that her first relationships went “past first base,” and that she “didn’t go all the way with a dude” until she was 16 years old.
“But I ended up marrying the guy, so that’s pretty crazy,” she said, basically confessing that she lost her virginity to Hemsworth, 35.
However, the ‘Midnight Sky’ artist was worried that the Land of Bad star would consider her a “loser” for being a virgin so she told him she’d already lost her virginity to someone else.
“I couldn’t think of anyone so I just made somebody up that I knew but we’d never actually had sex before,” she said.
Cyrus managed to keep the lie going for years until it eventually caught up with her. The truth surfaced when one of the Aussie actor’s friends ended up marrying the man she had falsely claimed as her first time.
“So then [Hemsworth] was like, ‘Now my friend is marrying someone you’ve hooked up with’,” she recalled. “So then – when I was like 24 – I had to say that I lied when I was 16.”
Though the ‘Flowers’ songstress and the Hunger Games star had been together for years, their marriage was short-lived.
Cyrus later reflected on why their relationship ultimately didn’t work. In her Used to Be Young TikTok series, she revealed that she had an epiphany about their marriage during her performance at Glastonbury Festival in June 2019.
“Me and Liam’s commitment to being married, of course, came from a place of love first because we had been together for 10 years, but also from a place of trauma and just trying to rebuild as quickly as we could,” she shared, referencing the California wildfires that destroyed their home in November 2018.
But by the time she took the stage that day, she realized their relationship “was no longer going to work in [her] life.” Since then, Cyrus has made it a priority to put herself first.
“That was another moment where the work, the performance, the character came first,” she said. “I guess that’s why it’s now so important to me for that not to be the case – that the human comes first.”
