Miley Cyrus made her first public appearance since her split from Liam Hemsworth

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27th Aug 2019

Since a representative for Miley Cyrus confirmed she had split from her husband, Liam Hemsworth, in early August this year and another report surfaced that soon after the split had been made public, Hemsworth had reportedly filed for divorce, Cyrus hasn’t made any public appearances.

The singer did post a candid essay to Twitter addressing rumours about the reason for the split, but she has stayed off the red carpet and hasn’t performed since the news of the split first broke.

However, the singer and actress has now stepped out for the first time in public, performing her new song, Slide Away, at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards.

The song is rumoured to be her break-up song about her decade-long relationship and life with Hemsworth, which she said in her Twitter essay, she had to make the “healthy” decision to leave behind. “I had to make a healthy decision for myself to leave a previous life behind. I am the healthiest and happiest I have been in a long time,” Cyrus, 26, wrote on Twitter. 

The lyrics to Cyrus’s song Slide Away certainly give credence to the rumour that it was inspired by her split, with lines like, “But it’s time to let it go… Move on, we’re not 17. I’m not who I used to be. You say that everything changed. You’re right, we’re grown now”.

Like many music artists, writing about what’s happening in their lives is a way to put down on paper what they’re feeling and process it, so it would make sense that Slide Away would be about this major moment in Cyrus’s life. And, it seems fitting that she would perform the newly-released song for the first time on television during her first public appearance since the split.

Cyrus’s performance of the song was emotional and heartfelt, but from the footage of her performance, she seems to have kept any tears in check and is very in control of her voice and the performance. It was a subdued MTV VMAs performance from the star, who made headlines for her controversial 2013 performance at the show.

According to , Kaitlynn Carter, who Cyrus has recently been spotted spending time with and was reportedly photographed kissing on a recent girls’ trip to Italy, watched Cyrus rehearse for her VMAs performance. Carter was also reportedly spotted backstage with Cyrus before her performance of Slide Away at the VMAs.

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