Singer Miley Cyrus explained to Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night why she retracted her apology for a topless photo she posed for in Vanity Fair when she was a teenager. Tweeting out the cover of the New York Post’s cover, which read “MILEY’S SHAME” and detailed her apology, Cyrus wrote: “IM NOT SORRY F—k YOU.”
IM NOT SORRY
Fuck YOU #10yearsago pic.twitter.com/YTJmPHKwLX
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) April 29, 2018
Elaborating on her retraction, Cyrus told Kimmel: “I think a lot of things have changed,” she said, speaking of society at large. “And I think the conversation has changed a lot, and I think, you know, something I really thought about was sure, some people thought I did something wrong in their eyes, but I think it was really wrong for someone to put on top of someone that this is my shame, and that I should be ashamed of myself. That’s not a nice thing to tell someone, that they should be ashamed of themselves,” Cyrus said, before adding, “Besides Donald Trump.”
Cyrus was 15 when she was posed by renowned photographer Annie Leibowitz for the shoot, which exposed her bare back. Cyrus said the apology was likely forced out of her by someone in her camp — “I’m sure somebody told me to” — and said that at the time, “I just wanted this to go away.”
“I think I also was trying to balance and understand what being a role model is,” Cyrus said. “To me, I think being a role model has been my free spirited-ness and sometimes my unapologetic attitude for decisions that I feel comfortable with. At the end of the day, it’s like anything else.”
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