Stopping by E!’s Daily Pop to promote her podcast with daughter Brandi Cyrus, Sorry We're Stoned, Tish Cyrus dished some deets about life on the road with her talented kids, and how a traumatic tour bus experience is what actually led her to take up smoking at the age of 42.
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Miley’s mom, whose now 53 (no, but like how? Have you seen her?) explained that before, "I was so against it. Like, never in my life had I ever smoked until I was 42,” Tish told co-hosts Carissa Culiner and Justin Sylvester. “But, I was on tour with Miley and she had gone on — we were going from like, Houston to New Orleans — and I stayed behind to meet up with friends and on the way to New Orleans our bus caught on fire.”
She recounted how the bus burned down "within three minutes" as she and daughter Noah Cyrus, got to safety. "I had gone back to go to bed and all of a sudden I heard this huge noise, which I thought could've been a gunshot," she said. "It was the tire blowing on the bus.”
After the driver pulled over, he informed her that the bus had caught fire. Tish admitted to at being “panicked,” but then quickly sprung into Momma mode to get Noah, her pup and the tour manager, who “had ear plugs in and was in bed asleep already,” off the bus in time to watch the vehicle burn to the ground.
However trauma from the frightening experience caused her to have sleepless nights. For which she tried and totally “hated” Ambien, a popularly used sleep aid. "That's actually how I started smoking," Tish added. "Miley said, 'Mom, why are you putting a chemical in your body that makes you feel so bad the next day?’"
And most importantly, it "really did help" her sleep, further opening up about her controlled cannabis routine, "I don't do that in the mornings." Meanwhile, her eldest daughter Brandi, who Tish interestingly described “as the easiest” of all her five children, confessed, "So, she's on it and I'm not, which is the funny thing.”
Further admitting, ”I honestly am shocked about how open she's been about all this," said Brandi. "Because for us, for the family, we are around her all the time when she is smoking, and she's so great. And we're like, 'The people need to see this. This is too good.' So, I'm just so proud of her for finally owning it, opening up, and being so cool about it.”
And although we all know Miley has been an advocate for and active participant in the ritual of puff, puff, pass in the past, Tish noted that at the moment “Miley, she doesn't anymore at all. She's completely sober. She doesn't smoke, nothing.” Well, guess that means more for Momma Tish then.
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