Celebrities Who Can't Stand Miley Cyrus

Prior to the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, rapper Nicki Minaj posted a series of tweets criticizing what she considered a lack of nominations for women of color, writing, "Black women influence pop culture so much but are rarely rewarded for it." VMAs host Miley Cyrus later told The New York Times that she hadn't followed the story, but felt the complaints were more about Minaj herself than broader race issues: "What I read sounded very Nicki Minaj, which, if you know Nicki Minaj is not too kind. It's not very polite."

When the two met face-to-face at the VMAs, Minaj concluded an acceptance speech with, "Back to this b**ch that had a lot to say about me in the press the other day. Miley, what's good?" She later reflected to The New York Times, "If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us." 

If you thought the drama was over, think again. Cue Cyrus' 2019 track, "Cattitude," which seemingly referenced Minaj's former feud with Cardi B with the lyric: "I love you Nicki, but I listen to Cardi." While Cyrus claimed on Capital Breakfast (via NME), "I don't actually think there is beef now anymore," Minaj responded on Queen Radio: "A Perdue chicken can never talk s**t about queens."

Taylor Swift is no stranger to celebrity feuds. Whether it be Kanye West, Katy Perry, or Camilla Belle, the "Shake It Off" singer doesn't seem to shake perceived slights from other celebrities off well.

In 2013, a source told Life & Style (via Hollywood Life) that they overheard Swift trashing Cyrus' performance at Soho House in Toronto, supposedly calling it "grotesque" and "disgusting." Was this a response to Cyrus criticizing Swift's choice of attire at the 2013 VMAs? "It's not the Grammys or the Oscars. You're not supposed to show up in a gown, Vanna White-style," Cyrus told Rolling Stone (via E! News). "It's supposed to be fun!" Cyrus didn't stop there. An insider told OK! (via Hollywood Life) that Cyrus has also allegedly called Swift "stuck up" and "prissy" and referred to her as a "sexless, frigid ice princess" who "bored' Harry Styles out of bed." 

Cyrus hit Swift again in a 2015 interview with The New York Times, this time taking aim at Taylor's squad. "I'm not trying to be in the squad," Cyrus said. "None of my friends are famous and not because of any other reason than I just like real people who are living real lives, because I'm inspired by them." With Cyrus later tweeting out a NSFW meme of herself and Swift in 2019, it's honestly hard to tell just how much bad blood's actually remained between these two songstresses.

Stop us if you heard this before. A celebrity had thoughts on Miley Cyrus' 2013 VMAs performance. But no celebrity went completely in on the performance quite like music and film legend Cher. To say she ripped it to shreds would be an understatement. Brace yourselves.

"I'm not old-fashioned. She could have come out naked, and if she'd just rocked the house, I would have said, 'You go, girl.' It just wasn't done well," Cher told USA Today. "She can't dance, her body looked like hell, the song wasn't great, one cheek was hanging out. And, chick, don't stick out your tongue if it's coated." We wonder if there were any aliens who could see this nuclear take from orbit.

Later that week, during a sit-down interview with CBS' Sunday Morning (via Rolling Stone), Cher had more to say about the performance. "I just thought all of it was terrible. Outfit, terrible. Dancing, terrible. Singing, average. Performance, terrible," she said. "If she'd just come out there and kicked a**, even though I don't think that I would have loved it, I would have respected it, and I would have appreciated it. That whole area that she was in was not something that I would gravitate to myself, but I would have thought, 'Boy, you did that. I give you props.'" Well, then. Cher eventually apologized. Well, sort of.

In 2014, Katy Perry came out to support Miley Cyrus on tour, and in what we assume was a delight to the audience, Cyrus crawled over to Perry's front-row seat and offered up a playful kiss. At least, that's Perry thought it was going to be.

"She has this one part where it's like a kiss cam, and I just walked up to her to give her like a friendly girly kiss, you know, as us girls do, and then she like, tried to move her head and go deeper and I pulled away," the "I Kissed A Girl" singer told an Australian talk show soon after (via CBS News). "God knows where that tongue has been. We don't know! That tongue is so infamous."

Cyrus shot back on Twitter (via E! News), making reference to Perry's ex, John Mayer, and his tongue: "Girl if ur worried abt where tongues have been good thing ur ex boo is ur EX BOO cause we ALL know where THAT...been." John Mayer would probably like to be excluded from this narrative.

During 2013, when Miley was just being Miley, Sir Elton John had some harsh criticisms of the young starlet. "I look at Miley Cyrus and I see a meltdown waiting to happen," he told The Australian (via E! News). "And she's so young! But she's got two records in the top 20," he continued, "so who is going to stop her?" Ouch.

The legendary singer justified his comments and perceived foresight into Cyrus' future by invoking ... Michael Jackson. "Maybe it's a British thing, but I can spot a car crash before it happens," he explained. "I was in my dressing room in Las Vegas when they announced that Michael Jackson was playing 50 dates at the O2 [Arena in London]. I turned to my agent and said: 'He won't do a single one of those.'"

Cyrus has chilled out a bit since then, and a mere five years later, she joined John on stage to perform his classic hit, "Tiny Dancer" at the 60th Annual Grammys.

Former Full House star Jodie Sweetin had a very public battle with a drug and alcohol addiction. In her 2009 memoir UnSweetined (via Sober Nation), the actress admitted she started drinking at 14 before moving on to cocaine and ecstasy. At the height of her fifteen years of substance abuse, she revealed she spent $60,000 on drugs between 2006 and 2007. Sweetin entered recovery in 2008 and has since earned her degree drug and alcohol counselor.

However, in 2016 (per E! News), Miley Cyrus posted a photo of Sweetin during her time as an addict with the caption, "Current Mood #fuller house." Fans were not pleased. "Seriously effed up to post this...Anything to get attention I suppose Miley," one user wrote. "She is now a different person, and it's not ok to drag someone for their past," another said.

When E! News asked Sweetin about Cyrus' dig, she responded with nothing but positivity. "I don't pay attention to negative stuff," the Fuller House star explained. "I have so much good stuff going on in my life right now that I try not to pay attention." As Taylor Swift would say, sometimes it's best to just shake it off.