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(NOTE LANGUAGE) On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Miley Cyrus talked about her recent tweet where she took back her 2008 apology for a controversial photo that was published in Vanity Fair.
“This was ten years ago,” Cyrus told Jimmy Kimmel, while promoting her new collaboration with Converse. “A lot of things have changed, and I think the conversation has changed a lot.”
When Cyrus was 15, she posed for photographer Annie Leibovitz. One of the photos showed the young Disney star wrapped in a satin sheet and her bare back exposed. When the photo ran in Vanity Fair, the New York Post published a cover story with the words, “Miley’s Shame” in large, block letters. Underneath, the cover reads, “TV’s ‘Hannah’ apologizes for near-nude pic.”
On Sunday, the “Wrecking Ball”-singer tweeted that very same New York Post cover and wrote, “IM NOT SORRY. F*** YOU. #10yearsago.”
She elaborated on the sentiment when chatting with Kimmel.
“Sure, some people thought I did something wrong in their eyes, but I think it was really wrong of someone to put on top of someone that this is my shame and that I should be ashamed,” she said on the show. “That’s not a nice thing to tell someone that they should be ashamed of themselves.”
The singer goes on to explain that her little sister was there at the shoot, and there was nothing sexual about the intentions.
“It was everyone else’s poisonous thoughts and minds that ended up turning this into something that it wasn’t meant to be,” she said. “So actually I shouldn’t be ashamed, they should be.”
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