Miley Cyrus Says She Once Performed Through a Ruptured Ovarian Cyst

Miley Cyrus is opening up about the medical incident that almost made her quit music two years ago. The singer appeared on a May 21 episode of Apple Music’s The Zane Lowe Show when she revealed during the interview that she performed through a ruptured ovarian cyst while hosting Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party with her godmother Dolly Parton to bring in 2023.

“I had a pretty traumatic experience on a show that I was doing with Lorne [Michaels] when I was doing my New Year’s show,” she said. “I had a medical emergency. I had an ovarian cyst rupture, which, we didn’t know exactly what was going on so we did it, but it was pretty traumatic cause it was extremely excruciating. And I did the show anyway, but it was really, really hard on me.”

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Cyrus continued, saying that she later went to dinner with Michaels, who ended up being the one to encourage her not to give up on her career. “He goes, ‘Six months. Everybody has six months to feel sorry for themselves and then we start to rebuild,’” she said. “And it was Christmas by then and that was New Year’s, so I was expired on my amount of time that I was able to shut down. He’s like, ‘You have no idea how many artists have sat in this chair and told me that they were quitting music. Everyone does this. Everyone has these traumatic experiences.’”

Per the Cleveland Clinic, ovarian cysts are fluid-filled growths that can develop on or inside your ovaries. This can happen as a result of various things like endometriosis, PCOS or a general response to your menstrual cycle. Most ovarian cysts (they’re common among women who haven’t experienced menopause yet) are painless and don’t cause symptoms, but sometimes they can rupture and cause pain, bloating, nausea or bleeding.

Cyrus didn’t go into any further details about her health, but since the incident, she’s gone on to win her very first Grammy award and is currently gearing up to release her new album, Something Beautiful, on May 30.