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    Miley Cyrus Opened Up About Breaking Her Sobriety During The Pandemic

    "I will not accept anyone or anything that causes me to not reach my fullest potential."

    Miley Cyrus just released her new album, Plastic Hearts, and it's one of her best to date. Check it out if you haven't already — she's on a whole new thing now, offering a contemporary update of 1980s pop rock.

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    The album features Cyrus baring her soul more than ever before, and as E! reports, when she stopped by The Howard Stern Show today, she opened up more about breaking her sobriety during quarantine.

    Musical guest Miley Cyrus performs on September 10, 2020

    "The hardest times have been in this pandemic," Cyrus admitted while noting that she's always been "truthful" about where she's at.

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    "And a lot of people, their sobriety broke during this time. I was one of them. Luckily, I haven't gone back to using any drugs, but I was drinking during the pandemic."

    Miley Cyrus attends the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, broadcast on Sunday, August 30, 2020 in New York City

    Cyrus said that she doesn't see her breaking from sobriety as a relapse: "I regressed," she explained, "because it's really, for me, drinking hasn't been — that hasn't been my demon. But it does not get me going any further."

    She continued, "If anything, it just makes me not reach my full potential, which is unacceptable to me. Like, I will not accept anyone or anything that causes me to not reach my fullest potential."

    Even though Cyrus said that she doesn't consider herself an alcoholic, she also acknowledged the effect that drinking has had on her relationships.

    "I'm not the best partner; I'm not the best daughter; I'm not the best sister. I can be a little unreliable. So if that's an alcoholic — if we're not measuring it by how much we drink but how we perform as a human being — then I would say alcohol is a problem for me because I'm not at my best."

    During the interview, Cyrus also explained why she stopped doing her Instagram Live talk show that she'd fired up at the beginning of the pandemic: "The dopamine — getting up every day, seeing the viewer count go up — it didn't do it for me anymore."

    Miley Cyrus walks the runway at the Marc Jacobs Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2020-2021 fashion show during New York Fashion Week on February 12, 2020 in New York City

    Hey, burnout is real, whether or not it's during a pandemic. And as always, we're thankful that Miley is speaking her truth and helping all of us grow, too.