Miley Cyrus has said that she wishes she could have all of her current career success without being famous. The former Disney star, who has courted controversy for most of 2013, tells the British edition of Cosmopolitan this month that she often yearns for a ‘normal’ life, and doesn’t like being stopped in public.
“The biggest misconception about me is that I like the media attention,” she confessed. “I wish I could be who I am without the fame. If everyone would still buy my records and if everything would go to No.1 in 30 seconds or whatever… that’d be great.
Miley Cyrus wishes she wasn’t famous (YouTube)
“I live without any regrets – you can’t change anything, so I don’t think about it. But would I ever want a ‘normal’ life? Yeah, there are definitely times when I wake up and wish I could go out without being photographed. I don’t care if people recognise me and say ‘hey’, but I don’t want to be stopped. I want to just walk around and see new cities.”
She also addressed criticism from those who say she is a bad role model, saying she doesn’t set out to be one in ways that people probably expect.
“I don’t put pressure on myself to be a role model, other than hopefully inspiring people to be good and to treat people well,” she explained. “I’m going to be what I want, and I’m going to do what I want. When people are suffocated, that’s when they end up falling off.”
And on the subject of her reputation for being loyal, she said: “I’m good to work with. I’m proud of that; I have a good reputation.
“I’m a really loyal person and if I dig you, I’m all the way down. But if you f**k me over, I’m all the way up. It’s like, once shame on you, twice shame on me. You’re the dumb one if you let someone back into your life and they s**t on you again.”
