Miley Cyrus’s new break-up monitor is hovering to the highest of the charts – however it’s not been with out some controversy.
The US pop star, 30, launched her newest monitor Flowers on ex Liam Hemsworth’s birthday January 13, leaving many to consider it was a dig on the Australian actor.
Now, Hemsworth’s long-term girlfriend Gabriella Brooks has had her personal say, taking to Instagram with a seemingly pointed message on the Hunger Games actor’s thirty third lap across the solar.
“It’s Liam day” the native mannequin, 26, captioned an image of Hemsworth having fun with a dip within the ocean, which she uploaded on her Instagram tales with a collection of emojis together with a love-heart and a birthday cake.
The ultra-private couple, who’ve been courting for 3 years, hardly ever publish about one another on social media, and have solely appeared in a handful of photographs collectively.
Brooks’ publish got here simply hours after Cyrus, who dated Hemsworth on-and-off for a decade, dropped an empowering breakup anthem.
Some of the lyrics embrace:
I can purchase myself flowers / Write my identify within the sand / Talk to myself for hours / Say stuff you don’t perceive / I can take myself dancing / I can maintain my very own hand / I can love me higher than you’ll be able to.
Cyrus additionally dropped the risque video for the monitor on the identical day, which opens along with her figuring out in a bikini:
The conspicuous timing of the track’s launch didn’t go unnoticed amongst Cyrus’ virtually 200 million followers, with many supporting her for being a “boss b**ch”, whereas others weren’t so impressed.
“The goddess era after healing the trauma. Hell yes,” one wrote.
“That’s awesome, but why on Liam’s birthday when he has moved on?” one other requested.
“You say you are over the break-up and divorce but then you do this? Just confused and makes it seem like you aren’t over him,” a 3rd stated.
“Slay you release that song on his birthday,” a fourth wrote.
Cyrus had been on and off with Hemsworth after first assembly on the set of The Last Song in 2009.
The couple wed in December 2018 earlier than going their separate methods in mid-2019. Cyrus then dated fellow Aussie, singer-turned-swimmer Cody Simpson, for 10 months earlier than saying their break up in August 2020.
While Cyrus has usually made cheeky references about her marriage – together with in her Prisoner music video the place she held up an indication studying, “In loving memory of all my exes, eat sh*t” – she has beforehand opened up about her heartbreak over the breakdown of her relationship with Hemsworth.
In a December 2020 interview with Howard Stern, Cyrus revealed there had been “too much conflict” with Hemsworth however that she is going to “always” love him.
She cited the wild California bushfires in 2018, which destroyed the house she shared with Hemsworth, as to why they rushed into making their union official.
“Our house burned down. We had been like, engaged – I don’t know if we really ever thought we were actually going to get married, but then we lost our house in Malibu,” she stated.
“I had so much and it was all gone, every song I had ever written was in that house. Every photograph of me that my parents had given to me, all my scripts, I lost everything. And so in trying to put that back together, instead of going, ‘Oh, nature kind of did something I couldn’t do for myself; it forced me to let go,’ I ran toward the fire.
“You’re attracted to that heat and me being an intense person and not wanting to sit with it, and not wanting to go, you know, ‘What could be purposeful about this?’ I just clung to what I had left of that house, which was me and him.
“And I really do and did love him very, very, very much and still do, always will.”
Cyrus even seems to reference the fires in Flowers, the place she sings: We have been proper ’til we weren’t / Built a house and watched it burn.
Hemsworth, for his half, has been courting Brooks for 3 years. He has by no means mentioned his break up from Cyrus publicly.