10. After the series ended in 2011 – 2009 also saw the theatrical release Hannah Montana: The Movie in 2009 – Miley admitted that she was struggling to find herself.
“Some of my viewers were so attached to a character that wasn’t me,” she told Howard Stern in 2020. “Then there’s a lot of psychological significance to that, where it’s like, ‘Am I as valuable as myself?'” OK, the premise of the whole show was that when I had my normal hair and looked like myself, no one cared didn’t give a damn about me. And then when I got all dressed up and put on a wig, all of a sudden you know, I’m being chased by people chasing my tour bus. So that’s a lot to do to a child – to say, “If you’re yourself, no one gives a fuck.” But then when they mold you to look like something else, something you’re not, and you’re really young, and it’s a lot of makeup and, you know, wigs and all that stuff, then it does something psychologically.”
11. For Miley, it was love at first sight when she met her first boyfriend Nick Jonas at a charity event in 2006 when both were 13 years old. “We became boyfriend and girlfriend the day we met,” Miley told Seventeen in 2008. “He was looking for me and said, ‘I think you’re beautiful and I really like you.’ And I thought, ‘Oh my God, I like you so much.'”
After secretly dating, the couple split and Miley admitted she “bawled for a month” after the breakup. “Nick and I loved each other,” she told the magazine. “We still do, but we were in love with each other. For two years he was there for me practically around the clock. But it was really hard to keep it from people. We argued a lot and it really wasn’t any fun.”
12. Her relationship with Nick inspired her breakup anthem “7 Things,” with Miley even wearing the necklace he gave her in the music video for the 2008 hit. The couple briefly got back together in 2009, and their brief reunion was inspiring The Jonas Brothers Ballad “Before the Storm” with Miley.