Noah Cyrus Opens Up About Overcoming Xanax Addiction: ‘I’m Not Going To Hide My Truth’

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Noah Cyrus is finding her way out of the shadow of substance abuse. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the “All Falls Down” singer opens up about her struggle with Xanax addiction, sharing how she put herself on the path to recovery. “My boyfriend at the time, when I was 18, was the first person that gave me a Xanax, and it became a way for us to bond,” Cyrus, now 22, recalls. “I think I wanted to fit in with him.

I wanted to be what he wanted and what he thought was cool and what I thought everybody was doing.” READ MORE: Noah Cyrus Opens Up About The Depression Behind Debut EP ‘Good Cry’: ‘I Was So Sad’ At the time, Cyrus was facing all kinds of difficulties, including growing up as younger sister to Miley. “I had a hard time with people coming up to me and saying, ‘Are you Miley Cyrus’ little sister?’ or ‘Are you Hannah Montana’s little sister?’ I did not like that, and it stripped me of my own identity for a long time,” she says.

Though she had tried other kinds of party drugs, Xanax, the brand name for the drug alprazolam, was different. “Once I felt that it was possible to silence things out for a second and numb your pain, it was over,” she says.

The accessibility of the drug in her circles also fuelled Cyrus’ addiction problem. “I was surrounded by people who were easily able to get it by buying it from people,” she says, recalling how it soon became a habit. “It just kind of becomes this dark pit, bottomless pit.” Soon she was sleeping all day and waking up at 8 p.m., not knowing what day it was, and her memory became unreliable, reaching a peak as the pandemic began in 2020.