Nov 20, 2025
I never want to detach from my mom, because we’re so close. I’ll get tears in my eyes even talking about her. But if nature plays its course in the way that it does, I will be an individual without my mom at some point, and that used to completely paralyze me. So I guess the reason I said “I mother me” is because I don’t have my mom with me the way that I used to. And now I just go, “What was it about her that made everything better?” It was safety, because I knew any situation that I didn’t feel safe in, my mom would get me out of it or make it better. And so now I just imagine what soothed me about her, and then I do it for myself. — MILEY CYRUS for The New York Times (2025).
