On Tuesday, Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato reconnected in a joint Instagram Live chat.
The interview was a part of Miley’s new Bright Minded: Live With Miley which is an afternoon talk show airing every day this week on her Instagram.
During the chat, they both got candid about their friendship and opened up about how they have always supported each other even after staying in frequent contact. The topic raised when Miley revealed how she struggled with body image after her appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2013, in which she donned a tan bodysuit while performing onstage with Robin Thicke.
“I basically went through two or three years where I wouldn’t wear shorts. I stopped wearing skirts on stage, all this because after the VMAs and I had on my cute little nude bodysuit, everyone started comparing me to a turkey and putting a turkey in my outfit,” she said.
“I was just so skinny and so pasty and they kept putting me next to this turkey, and I was feeling so bad on myself that I did not wear a bikini for like two years and no one thought that that would ever made me feel some type of way.”
She continued, “I think what was so hard about it was my brand has always been about being so unapologetically myself and being confident, and the worse thing that I would feel like I would be to my fans is lying or a fraud.”
Demi responded saying: “First of all, I’m so sad that you went through that and I had no idea. I wish I could’ve been there, but I didn’t know and I feel like we’ve gone through like times where we’re closer and then distant and that’s fine, that’s what friends do. I just wish I could’ve been there for you. But if that ever f**k happens again, you better call me.”
Miley then talked about their on-off friendship, telling Demi, “Life is moving so fast that it’s usually hard to slow ourselves down and appreciate people in our lives, and you’ve been that person for me for so many years and we’ve been friends for so long.”
“We can not talk forever and then some bulls**t will go down, and I’ll just know you’re the person I want to reach out to,” Miley continued. “In dark times, it’s really important to reach towards those who are illuminated. I just think that you’re such a light even if it took this crisis to get us connected again.”
Demi recalled why she connected with Miley saying, “I feel like you’ve always been such a light and that’s why we connected at 14. We connected then because we just saw something in each other. Maybe it was because of spirituality or maybe it was just our hearts.”
“Or maybe we were just gay as f**k” Miley joked which left Demi in splits.
In the past, Miley and Demi both have spoken about their respective sexuality. Miley told Variety in 2016, “My whole life, I didn’t understand my own gender and my own sexuality.”
“I always hated the word ‘bisexual,’ because that’s even putting me in a box,” she explained at the time. “I don’t ever think about someone being a boy or someone being a girl … My eyes started opening in the fifth or sixth grade. My first relationship in my life was with a chick.”
“Even though I may seem very different, people may not see me as neutral as I feel. But I feel very neutral. Once I understood my gender more, which was unassigned, then I understood my sexuality more.”
In 2018, Demi described her sexuality as “very fluid” in a cover story with InStyle magazine. “I think love is love,” she said. “You can find it in any gender. I like the freedom of being able to flirt with whoever I want.”
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