“Hannah Montana” caused Miley Cyrus an “Identity Crisis”? Here’s what she said!

Miley Cyrus revealed what it was actually like playing Hannah Montana. It took a toll on her mental health which a sudden rise to fame can take for anyone. It’s not surprising that playing a character with alternate identities as a teen could get complicated quickly.

“Talk about an identity crisis,” she said on Spotify’s Rock This with Allison Hagendorf podcast. “A character almost as often as I was myself, and actually, the concept of the show is that when you’re this character, when you have this alter ego, you’re valuable. You’ve got, like, millions of fans, you’re the biggest star in the world, and then the concept was that when I looked like myself when I didn’t have the wig on anymore, no one cared about me, I wasn’t a star anymore.”

Ugh, that breaks our hearts because obvs Miley > Hannah, since ya know, Miley is a real person and Hannah… isn’t.”

“I think that’s maybe why I almost created a characterized version of myself at times,” she revealed. “I never created a character where it wasn’t me, but I was aware of how people saw me and I may be played into it a little bit.”

Her eclectic choices post the show make a lot more sense now.