Singer Miley Cyrus has had a number of controversial moments over the course of her career, but early on when she was still doing Hannah Montana, she sparked concern with a jaw-dropping performance.
© Getty ImagesAt the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, she sang "Party in the USA" while dancing alongside a metal pole that had been attached to an ice cream cart at just 16 years old.
© Kevin Mazur/TCA 2009Reflecting on the eyebrow-raising moment, Miley revealed that the whole thing was not actually her idea at all during a conversation for Spotify’s Billions Club series.
She told her sister Brandi Cyrus: "this is going to be no surprise to you," asking: "Do you know whose idea that was?"
© Bruce GlikasBrandi, 37, guessed it was their mom's idea, which Miley confirmed: "Yup, that was my mom's idea. So she always lets me take the blame."
"When I got in trouble the next day," Miley continued, "you know who was nowhere to be found? Tish Cyrus."
While Miley's performance may have caused a stir, she remembers it for a completely different reason, clearly only having fond memories: "The thing that I remember most about that performance was it was the first time I ever wore real diamond jewelry on stage."
© Jeff KravitzAt this point, she joked: "So you guys remember a little old ice cream truck, I remember the diamonds."
At 32 years old, Miley has been working since she was 13 years old. But as is the case with any star who has been working for over half their life, she's certainly gone through peaks and troughs.
Her 2009 Teen Choice Awards performance was not the only time she's caused a stir on stage, as just four years later she performed at the MTV Video Music Awards with Robin Thicke. Wearing a flesh-colored latex two-piece, she shocked many as she twerked against the "Blurred Lines" singer.
© Getty ImagesThe singer would go on to joke about her infamous Bangerz era as she was inducted as a Disney Legend at D23.
Miley said she was "still proud to have been Hannah Montana," and that while "a little bit of everything has changed", "at the same time nothing has changed at all."
© DisneyThe singer also joked that she "definitely wasn't created in a lab," contrary to rumors that Disney kids are created in the Californian Disney office.
"If I was, there must have been a bug in the system which caused me to malfunction somewhere between the years of 2013 and 2016," she teased.
