Miley Cyrus is no stranger to pushing herself to the limit for her art, but one filming experience took things to an extreme.
The 32-year-old singer revealed that while working on her upcoming film Something Beautiful, she contracted a brutal infection after rolling around on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the video shoot.
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, May 22, Cyrus recalled, “I filmed this video in October, and by November at Thanksgiving, I was put in the ICU for a moment — just for a moment.” The infection was so severe, the “Wrecking Ball” songstress revealed that her “leg began to disintegrate around the kneecap area.”
In typical fashion, Cyrus, 32, laughed it off during the interview, describing her doctor’s reaction to her infection. “The doctor goes, ‘Do you have any idea why you would have such a brutal infection on your kneecap?’” Cyrus joked. “And I just saw myself [rolling around on the Walk of Fame] and I had to tell him.” The situation got even more cringe-worthy when she recalled how the surgeon looked at her leg and said, “Yuck.” “They open up cadavers and see inside the gut of humans,” she quipped, “and they’re looking at me telling me I’m disgusting.”
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Despite the setback, Cyrus pushed forward with the production, opting to film in the middle of the night on the Walk of Fame to save on rental costs. “With this movie, I had a big dream and a small budget,” she explained, so they just went to the famous hotspot “in the middle of the night.” She laughed with Kimmel, saying, “Have you been to the Walk of Fame in the middle of the night? I thought it was my last day.”
This incident isn’t the only health scare Cyrus has faced. Earlier this week, she shared that she experienced an ovarian cyst rupture while hosting her 2023 New Year’s Eve special, pushing through the excruciating pain to perform with Dolly Parton, Sia, and Paris Hilton. “It was pretty traumatic because it was extremely excruciating and I did the show anyway,” she admitted.
