Miley Cyrus opens up about ‘traumatic’ health scare that nearly made her quit music: ‘Excruciating experience’

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At the time, Miley recalled she had no idea what was happening. She just knew something felt horribly wrong. “We didn’t know exactly what was going on,” she admitted. But instead of walking off stage or calling the performance off, she pushed through the pain and completed the show. “It was pretty traumatic because it was extremely excruciating and I did the show anyway,” she said. “But it was really, really hard on me.”

According to Hopkins Medicine, while an ovarian cyst is a pretty normal phenomenon in a woman’s body and usually shows up without symptoms, an infected cyst, when it ruptures, triggers the release of a “life-threatening” immune response to fight harmful bacteria. However, a normal rupture happens when a fluid-filled sac in the ovary suddenly bursts. In such cases, not only does it cause sharp pain but it can also lead to internal bleeding. Cysts are usually harmless and go unnoticed, but a rupture, especially when the body is shaking with great speed, like in Miley’s case where she was performing on stage, can be dangerous.

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The singer said that the experience rattled her so deeply that she even considered quitting music altogether. “I had dinner with Lorne and he said something that now has stuck with me,” Miley shared. “He goes, ‘Six months, everybody has six months to feel sorry for themselves and then we start to rebuild.’” That one line pretty much changed everything for Miley. Lorne reminded her she wasn’t the only artist to go through a rough patch. “You have no idea how many artists have sat in this chair and told me they were quitting music,” he told her. “Everyone does this.” In the later part of the interview, the singer revealed she has had reached the end of her “shut down” period. “What I’ve always realised is that it will quit me before I ever quit it,” she said of music. “That’s not in the cards for me.”

While Miley is back in the music scene gearing up for her new album Something Beautiful dropping on May 30th, the ovarian condition is not the only health scare she is dealing with. Earlier, the singer revealed that she has yet another challenge in her life, her battle with Reinke’s edema, a condition where “a very large polyp” on her vocal cord not only gives her a raspy tone and a uniqueness in her voice but also makes singing a physical challenge. “It’s like running a marathon with ankle weights,” she said.