Miley Cyrus is getting candid with Hailey Bieber about why she doesn’t find herself
going to church anymore.
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the spread of Coronavirus. Alright, so let's get back to this Miley Cyrus tea shall we?
As part of her new Instagram series Bright Minded: Live with Miley, Miley uses her Instagram
to connect with her famous friends while at home during the Coronavirus quarantine, and
she’s bringing some big names right to your cell phones.
On Friday’s episode, Miley was joined by her friend Hailey Bieber where they had some
interesting conversations, including one about their religion.
Hailey and her hubby Justin Bieber are avid churchgoers. They opened up about the impact
of church on her life saying “I think there's a difference between being raised in church
and being an adult and having your own relationship with God and Jesus and spirituality because
what my relationship was with faith getting raised that way is completely different than
me in my own journey as an adult."
She also added that she “found a church community that works for me, where I feel
supported and loved and accepted."
Miley then followed up with the fact that she grew up "as a believer," but added that
she "fell off that path" as an adult.
She said, "I had a hard time finding a relationship with God that worked for me as an adult.”
She then went on to call churches in the 90s a a less accepting time” before adding “I
think what I just took away from you is I'm allowed to decide what my relationship is
with spirituality as an adult that doesn't have to be aligned with the way that it was
when I was brought up."
Miley revealed she has several friends who identied as gay and weren’t accepted at
the church, and even sent to conversion camps.
She said, “I had a really hard time with that. And I had a hard time with me finding
my sexuality too. So, you now telling me that I'm allowed to redesign my relationship with
God as an adult, and make it how it feels most accepting to me, makes me feel so less
turned off by spirituality.”
And of course, Hailey being the supportive friend that she is, had some wise words for
Miley saying "I think it's about your journey between you and God. It's not your journey
and 10 other people's journey. It's just yours. It's been you and Him. I believe that Jesus
is about loving people, no matter where they are in life. I've always had a hard time with
church making people feel excluded and not accepted and they can't be a part of it because
of what they believe in and who they love."
Back in 2015, Miley opened up about her sexuality after revealing that she identified has a
pansexual.
During an interview with Vanity Fair she said, “My whole life, I didn’t understand my
own gender and my own sexuality. My eyes started opening in the fifth or sixth grade. My first
relationship in my life was with a chick. I grew up in a very religious Southern family.
The universe has always given me the power to know I’ll be OK. Even at that time, when
my parents didn’t understand, I just felt that one day they are going to understand.”
Miley’s new series is no doubt a turning point for her as she proclaimed how happy
she is as she transitions into this new chapter in her life.
During the live, she gave Hailey a peek at her glam room slash office where she revealed
that she will be filming more segments of her show.
And what appeared to be something to lift people’s spirits as most of the world sits
in quarantine, was something much larger as Miley also revealed she will soon have guests
over at her home once she is given the all-clear.
She said during the third episode of her series, “I created the show for emotional support
at a very stressful time full of chaos and confusion and fear and panic, and I wanted
to bring light into a dark time…Every day, we’re gonna get a little more official.
I’ve got a lot of time on my hands.”
In her most recent episode, she also explained that she does everything on the show from
finding and booking the talent to conducting all the interviews herself.
Recently, Miley was also joined by another famous friend, Demi Lovato.
The conversation popped off rather quickly when the two opened up about their body issues
before later opening up about their friendship.
Miley explained her infamous VMA performance with Robin Thicke saying, “I basically went
through two or three years where I wouldn’t wear shorts. I stopped wearing skirts on stage,
all this s— because after the VMAs…everyone started comparing me to a turkey and putting
a turkey in my outfit.”
She added, “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. 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 then apologized to Miley for not knowing that she was going through that and made her
promise if something like that were to ever happen again, that she would call.
The conversation later shifted to their friendship and admitted that they often go periods of
time without speaking.
Both Miley and Demi have a lot of history together after meeting when they both had
their own shows on the Disney Channel and were dating members of the Jonas Brothers.
Miley revealed, “We can not talk forever and then some bulls— will go down, and I’ll
just know you’re the person I want to reach out to.”
She went on to say “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 then added that maybe the two were connected “because of spirituality or maybe it was
just our hearts.”
So sweet. Okay guys, we want to know what you have to say about Miley’s new aspirations.
What do you think of Miley’s new show? Do we think we will actually see Bright Minded
turn into an actual series? We can’t wait to hear your thoughts in the comment below.
Once again, I’m Emile Ennis Jr. hoping you’re staying safe and sanitized out there. I’ll
see you guys soon.