Miley Cyrus has always been refreshingly candid about her life, and her views on marriage have changed as she’s moved through some of the most intense chapters of her personal story. Following the confirmation of her engagement to Maxx Morando in December 2025, it’s a good moment to look back at what the singer has said about tying the knot — and why her divorce from Liam Hemsworth shaped how she thinks about relationships today.
Cyrus’s relationship with Hemsworth began as a teenage love story after they met on the set of The Last Song, and it stretched across roughly a decade before ending in separation and later divorce. Despite the long history and on-screen chemistry, Miley has frequently said that marriage was never the central goal in her life. Even before the marriage, she told interviewers she didn’t place huge importance on domestic milestones like weddings or having children — priorities that shifted as her life underwent major upheaval.
The turning point came in 2019. After Miley and Liam’s California home was damaged in the Malibu fires and their relationship began to fracture, she has described feeling desperate and unsettled. In later interviews she admitted that the decision to marry in December 2018 was driven in part by that turbulence — a kind of attempt to steady herself after loss. In her own words, marriage at the time felt like a “lifesaver” during a period when she was trying to rebuild.
Miley has also been open about recognizing when something was no longer working. She has said that by the time she performed at Glastonbury in 2019, she’d already decided the marriage wouldn’t continue. That realization — paired with a period of candid self-examination that included addressing substance use and personal boundaries — helped her accept that walking away was the healthiest path forward.
Still, Cyrus isn’t anti-romance. Her more recent relationship with Maxx Morando, which led to the engagement announcement in December 2025, shows she’s open to love that grows from a different place: rebuilding and starting again rather than trying to patch over trauma. She’s spoken about physically and emotionally rebuilding her life after the fires and the divorce, and how that process taught her what she truly values in a partner and in herself.
Throughout all of this, Miley has mixed reflection with her signature blunt humor. She’s acknowledged her tendency toward codependency in past conversations, explained how songwriting sometimes presages life changes, and reminded audiences that public perception doesn’t always match private reality. Above all, her comments paint a picture of someone who has learned to put personal healing before the pressure to conform to romantic expectations — and who now approaches marriage with more clarity about why she would say “yes.”
