Miley Cyrus calls her twerking days as 'malfunction' during Disney Legends event
Miley Cyrus
Miley Cyrus is calling her a wild past a 'malfunction'. The pop star appeared at D23- a weekend-long Disney event where she was named as one of 14 new Disney Legends. Cyrus has worked with the company in the past in the popular show Hannah Montana which made her a star during her teen years.
Stars like Jamie Lee Curtis, Angela Bassett and Kelly Ripa were also honoured.
During her speech Cyrus recalled her journey and how she broke her good girl image by undergoing a massive change in 2013 with the release of her album Bangerz.
For her speech, Cyrus got off to an emotional start, saying, "I’m gonna let everybody get in on a little Disney Legend secret. I’m the one that tells you what you’re not supposed to know. And what I want to say, is that legends get scared, too. I’m scared right now, but the difference is we do it anyway, and all of you can do that every single day. It’s legendary to be afraid and do it anyway. There is no such thing as failure when you try."
She went on to talk about her early years and how she auditioned for Hannah Montana in 2005 at Disney's Burbank office – a place where she joked "it's rumoured that they create all of us Disney kids."
She continued, "I definitely wasn’t created in a lab, but if I was, there must’ve been a bug in the system which caused me to malfunction somewhere between the years of 2013 and '16."
The audience laughed and applauded, and she added, "Sorry, Mickey!"
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Hannah Montana premiered in 2005, when Cyrus was 13. Its last episode aired in January 2011, and two years later, the singer began promoting a new album called Bangerz. She had famously performed at the MTV Video Music Awards the same year with Robin Thicke. The performance featured her dancing provocatively, rubbing against Thicke and touching herself. The step became popular and twerking became a rage all over.
Cyrus concluded her speech by saying she was proud of her role on Hannah Montana. She tearfully continued with, "A little bit of everything has changed since that day, but at the same time, nothing has changed at all. I stand here still proud to have been Hannah Montana because she made Miley in so many ways."
