Throughout an look on Tuesday’s episode of the Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky podcast, the 32-year-old singer detailed how she was “fired” from the 2012 kids’s animated movie, Lodge Transylvania, after she gave her then-boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, a penis-shaped cake for his birthday, and images surfaced on-line that confirmed her licking it.

“I, as a joke, bought my boyfriend a penis cake for his birthday and I bought fired. I used to be the lead actress in Lodge Transylvania, they usually fired me and changed me as a result of I had made an inappropriate grownup joke. However I used to be 18,” mentioned Cyrus, who had been solid within the lead voice appearing position of Mavis Dracula, the daughter of Adam Sandler’s Rely “Drac” Dracula. (She was in the end changed by Selena Gomez.)

The Grammy winner defined why she believed her axing over the cake was “ridiculous.”

“What felt ridiculous to me about getting fired [over] a penis cake was that they promote penis muffins for all bachelorettes. In Nashville, Tennessee, you will get penis muffins. It isn’t that large of a deal,” she informed Lewinsky. “I assumed this [was] a quite simple, not vulgar joke. That is foolish. You are able to do this for all bachelorette events. They make necklaces and cups and straws and every kind of stuff. So it felt ridiculous.”

“To be fired for normal issues that ladies my age, they go to bachelorette events they usually do that,” Cyrus added. “They go to Magic Mike reveals. However, I used to be, at the moment, I wasn’t somebody that was acceptable for teenagers, though that was in my private life.”

In 2019, the “Flowers” singer shared a thread on X, previously Twitter, during which she opened up about previous conduct that got here underneath scrutiny, together with the penis cake.

“I bought kicked off resort Transylvania for getting Liam a penis cake for his birthday and licking it,” she wrote on the time.

Within the wake of her thread, a supply for Sony, the studio behind Lodge Transylvania, claimed to to The Hollywood Reporter that the penis cake images have been the explanation behind Cyrus’ firing.

Nevertheless, as Cyrus shared on Lewinsky’s podcast, essentially the most troublesome yr of her profession got here after the drama. She opened up about the way it felt to navigate fame in 2013 after she says the world turned on her.

“My 2013 is your 1998, as a result of that was the time that I bought, simply hit so onerous. And I used to be so embarrassed,” she recalled, evaluating that fraught yr in her life with Lewinsky’s scandal within the White Home.

She continued, “There was even a time the place my brother and sister did not need to go to highschool due to how humiliated they have been to be associated to me. I bear in mind my brother even saying at one level, ‘I do not choose you, however you could possibly perceive how onerous it’s for me to go to highschool and so that you can be my sister.”

The Hannah Montana alum mentioned, throughout that point, she misplaced “the whole lot” in her private life because of the alternatives she was making professionally, with 2013 serving as one among Cyrus’ most talked about years thus far — leaving the Disney channel, posing nude and releasing her controversial album, Bangerz.

As for what helped launch a few of the disgrace she had round each her private {and professional} life on the time, Cyrus credited EDMR remedy — which per the Cleveland Clinic stands for “Eye Motion Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a particular kind of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro that helps people heal from traumatic experiences and associated signs like PTSD.”

“It modified me,” Cyrus gushed. “I really feel prefer it form of deleted the folder of my thoughts — the guilt and disgrace folder. So, I have not actually handled that for in all probability about 4 years, however up till I did that EDMR, I had rather a lot guilt about how onerous it could’ve been to be my sibling or my guardian, and the way embarrassing and all these issues.”

Whereas issues appeared unsure at the moment, due to numerous remedy and development, Cyrus mentioned she’s been capable of heal, and she or he has her newest album, One thing Stunning, to thank for that.

“This album is basically about therapeutic,” Cyrus maintained. “I’ve talked about it rather a lot — this album has healed me me in some ways, however it actually is about therapeutic. And generally, that may be within the easiest or the deepest of how.”

One thing Stunning is out now.