Miley Cyrus' Frankest Ever Admissions Revealed From Shockingly Candid Interview — Including the One Thing That Got Her Sober

Miley Cyrus has opened up about her inspiration and the process of creating her latest album, Something Beautiful, in a raw interview with Zane Lowe, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Scroll to discover the most shocking bombshells Cyrus, 32, dropped while chatting about her ninth studio album.

In an episode of Apple Music 1's The Zane Lowe Interview series on YouTube, released on May 21, the Flowers hitmaker let some secrets slip before her album's release on May 30. Among the biggest bombshells was that her godmother, Dolly Parton, inspired two of the tracks: More to Lose and Every Girl You've Ever Loved.

After playing the song Something Beautiful, she told Parton she had another song called More to Lose, although she had not yet worked on it.

Cyrus confessed: "She goes, 'All right, I see what you're doing. You got any hits?' And I'm like, 'I do actually.' She goes, 'Oh, really? What's it called?' And I had not written it yet."

She finally shared More to Lose with the Jolene singer in January. But after sharing the track, Parton asked her again if she "got any more," leading her to write Every Girl You've Ever Loved.

According to Cyrus, Harrison Ford asked her what she was up to and if she was "in the studio making an album." She then showed the Something Beautiful concepts to the Air Force One actor, which included "performing in all the forests and at the pyramids and all these things."

She recalled: "He goes, 'You really want to go and set up in a forest and do what?' He's like, 'You going to bring a crew? You got to…' He's like, 'Looks expensive.' And I came back to the trailer, I was like, 'Guys, we're not performing in the forest anymore," adding Ford "made a lot of sense."

Per Cyrus, the component film of Something Beautiful is "her way of touring."

The Hannah Montana star continued: "That's why I'm putting it into theaters because it's something you can watch night after night after night and you get to discover and you get to feel like you're a part of a performance, but I don't have to tax myself in that way."

Cyrus also showed deep appreciation for pop music and some legendary singers, including Stevie Nicks and Elton John, adding that they "keep up with culture and what's relevant."

The singer recalled: "I remember that when I got close with Stevie maybe 10 years ago, I was asking her, 'Oh, what are you doing today?' And she goes, 'Just listening to new music, just catching up. Have you heard of this, that, and the other thing?' And one of the things that she said to me, this was maybe even over 10 years ago, she was like, 'Harry Styles is going to put out a really good new record.'

"She's listening to everything before it even comes out. And she's like, 'Do you know him? You guys should meet each other. You guys are similar. You're doing the same thing.'"

She pointed out that Nicks was "on it in a way that (Parton) was on it," as the Islands in the Stream songstress also gushed about Sabrina Carpenter.

In the same The Zane Lowe Show episode, Cyrus opened up about her 2024 Grammy wins after her song Flowers scored the Best Pop Solo Performance and Record of the Year awards.

She explained: "I think somewhere inside of me, I needed maybe to hold a trophy and just feel for a moment that I have something that I can hold in my hands that feels like a true achievement.

"After every album, I've been able to say, well, I did what I came here to do, and I made the album that I set out to make, and that's enough. But maybe it's the kid in me."

In November 2019, Cyrus underwent vocal surgery following a Reinke's edema diagnosis.

During the interview, the Bolt star explained why she sounds the way she does, referencing her "unique anatomy."

She said: "I had the Reinke's edema, which is something that is called, it's abuse of the vocal cords.

"And being 21 and staying up and drinking and smoking and partying after every show does not help. But also in my case, it does not cause it. So my voice always sounded like this."

Cyrus revealed she had a "very large polyp" on her vocal cord, which gave her "a lot of tone and the texture that has made me who I am."

Cyrus told Lowe her decision to stay sober changed her entire life.

While she briefly began drinking again during the COVID-19 lockdown, she admitted she needed "to fall one more time," explaining: "I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here."

She previously revealed in a 2020 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that her vocal surgery helped her become sober because she "just learned so much about the effects."

For the So Undercover star, she and Beyoncé are "very different" because Queen Bey feels like "a mother to the world."

She shared: "I feel like I felt more like a friend to the world, which is very different than like a goddess. You know, she's kind of like, queen, and I always felt a very motherly feeling from her to her audience. But I think I feel more like your friend because we grew up together."