Miley Cyrus

Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.6 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week on Reclaiming, we sit down with Miley Cyrus, a global icon, shape-shifting performer, and fearlessly candid storyteller. Miley opens up about her earliest days in the spotlight, the complicated legacy of Hannah Montana, and the personal cost of growing up famous. She shares why her latest music feels like medicine, how she’s learned to set boundaries with the public, and the lessons she’s still unlearning about shame, identity, and self-worth. With humor, honesty, and striking insight, Miley opens up about family estrangement and reconciliation, the armor of persona, and why she’s finally starting to feel free in her own skin.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky early and ad free right now.
0:06.3	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.3	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:19.0	Miley Cyrus.
0:26.0	Yep, I had the privilege of sitting with the incredible Miley Cyrus for this week's episode. We went deep, we went real, we compared reclaiming notes. There is so much
0:32.0	wisdom packed into this 32-year-old icon. I think you'll be as blown away as I was.
0:39.3	Anyway, I hope you find something in our chat to connect to, and thanks for joining us on Reclaiming.
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1:09.2	Miley, I'm so thrilled to have you here. Welcome to Reclaiming. I love the title. Oh, thank you. It's a great title. Thank you. Well, I got to see something beautiful, your new visual album over the weekend. I didn't even know you would get to see it. I would have sat with you. Oh, I was, well, I was on the plane and you should have seen
1:28.1	me because I was like making sure no one could see, although I also wanted to kind of grab the
1:33.3	thing you go, I just want everyone to know. I'm watching my least, my least new album that's coming
1:38.8	out is mesmerizing. Thank you. I really appreciate that. And I'm excited to talk about it a bit
1:43.0	later. I feel like the title of something beautiful actually resonates and really compliments,
1:48.3	you know, reclaiming and what your platform and what your podcast stands for because something
1:54.0	beautiful, just the title alone carries a lot of power, a lot of weight, a lot of energy.
1:59.5	And we all experience, you know, I don't actually
2:02.1	want to narrow it down to this specific time, because as you know, as much as anyone, every
2:07.9	generation and every society and community experiences different struggles. So it all feels like
2:13.8	we're all experiencing the worst of the worst, you know, in our own way. And so I felt like
2:19.3	there was a need for this medicine, which I think music is some of the most potent in a very kind of
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