{"id":327830,"date":"2025-12-05T21:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327830\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:35:09","slug":"miley-cyrus-has-a-serious-paper-phobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/327830\/","title":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus Has a Serious Paper Phobia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miley Cyrus<\/a> appeared for an interview on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0on Thursday, December 4th, and she dove deep into her phobia of paper.<\/p>\n

Kimmel began the interview by congratulating Cyrus on her recent engagement to fianc\u00e9 Maxx Morando, and joked that a proposal probably made for a good Christmas gift for her. Cyrus countered by saying she\u2019s \u201ca little bit of a grinch\u201d around Christmas, specifically because of her fear of paper. \u201cThe real problem for me with paper is when people have dry hands and they touch paper,\u201d Cyrus told Kimmel in between gags, \u201cAnd then it\u2019s Christmas, it\u2019s cold, and everyone\u2019s hands are dry and they\u2019re all touching paper!\u201d<\/p>\n

Cyrus continued, explaining how she can\u2019t even open letters, she won\u2019t read books that aren\u2019t on a Kindle or iPad, and she can\u2019t even stand the paper cue cards that Kimmel reads off of. She did, however, emphasize that it\u2019s mostly dry paper (or really, dry hands touching paper) that freaks her out \u2014 wax paper is smooth enough to the touch that she doesn\u2019t mind it, and she also doesn\u2019t have a problem with rolling papers.<\/p>\n

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But pretty much any other paper product is off limits for Cyrus \u2014 even cardboard, which Cyrus deemed to be \u201cthe worst.\u201d When asked where the phobia comes from,\u00a0Cyrus pointed to repeated childhood road trips from her native Nashville to Canada with her family, where she\u2019d be stuck in the backseat with her brothers for long stretches. \u201cMy Mom would be driving and it would be complete chaos, because all of us would fight for the entire 14 hours, and then to really torture me, [my brothers] would rub paper together while I was in the backseat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though she had a few visceral reactions to even discussing her fear of paper during the interview, Cyrus acknowledged that the phobia is \u201cgetting worse\u201d as she gets older and is, at this point, actually affecting her quality of life. \u201cThere does need to be some sort of intervention,\u201d Cyrus said. \u201cI am going to look into some maybe EMDR, being hypnotized about it, because it is affecting my everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in her chat with Kimmel, Cyrus discussed her recent contribution to the soundtrack of\u00a0Avatar: Fire and Ash, \u201cDream As One,\u201d<\/a> and her experience working with James Cameron. Watch the full interview segment below.<\/p>\n

Cyrus released her ninth album,\u00a0Something Beautiful<\/a>, back in May. We named her track \u201cEasy Lover\u201d as one of the Best Songs of 2025<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miley Cyrus appeared for an interview on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0on Thursday, December 4th, and she dove deep into her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-327830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}