Miley Cyrus has revealed she first had sex with Liam Hemsworth nine years before they got married.
“I didn’t go all the way with a dude [until] I was 16,” Cyrus admitted during the Call Her Daddy podcast. “But I ended up marrying the guy. So that’s pretty crazy.
"I lied and said he wasn’t the first so I didn’t seem like a loser."
Cyrus and Hemsworth, who was then 19, connected while co-starring in the romantic drama The Last Song. It was filmed from June to August 2009 in Georgia where the age of consent, like in Canada, is 16.
Cyrus and Hemsworth went on to have an on-again, off-again relationship before they tied the knot in December 2018 – but announced their separation eight months later.
In a candid conversation with Call Her Daddy host Alexandra Cooper, Cyrus said Hemsworth wasn't her first sexual partner. “The first time I ever hooked up with anyone was with a girl,” she said. “Two of them.”
She explained: "I was attracted to girls way before I ever was attracted to guys. When I was 11 years old I used to think that Minnie Mouse was super f**king hot. She was super hot to me. I always thought that the female characters were way hotter than any of the guys. When I was like 11 or 12, my friends were kind of like starting to tell me what they were doing with guys and I didn’t really understand it – so I got most of my girlfriends to hook up with me."
Now 27, Cyrus said she does not believe in "one true love" and has only been in love three times in her life. “But I’ve been in love more than in love with anyone else, one time," she said, adding that there is "one person, who’s a girl, that I still think about and dream about all the time."
Elsewhere in the conversation, Cyrus spoke candidly about dealing with break-ups, eschewing foreplay, and disliking a certain part of the male anatomy. “I don’t really want to look at a penis for any longer than I have to," she confessed.
The interview premiered at the same time as “Midnight Sky,” a new song from Cyrus, and only hours after news broke that she reportedly split from singer Cody Simpson after 10 months of dating. TMZ reported the relationship ended “within the last few weeks, and it's unclear right now what led to the breakup.”