Miley Cyrus spoke about the "identity crisis" she felt while playing her pop star alter ego Hannah Montana on the hit Disney Channel show between 2006 and 2011.
On Friday, Miley Cyrus appeared on Spotify's "Rock This with Allison Hagendorf" telling the host what it was like playing two characters — a teen girl in the day at school and a global superstar in the evening.
"Talk about an identity crisis," she said. "Like I had gone from being a character almost as often as I was myself."
The whole concept of the show, she said, was that when you're the character, you're valuable because you have millions of fans.
"And then the concept was that when I looked like myself, when I didn't have the wig on anymore, that no one cared about me," she said. "I wasn't a star anymore."
She added it was really "drilled" into her head that nobody cared when she wasn't Hannah Montana, so she "really had to break that.
"I never created a character where it wasn't me, but I was aware of how people saw me, and I kind of played into it a little bit," she said. "Like when I noticed that people gave a shit that I would stick my tongue out. When they told me, stop sticking your f---ing tongue out, I would do it more." -Chris O'Gorman