Miley Cyrus reveals she ruptured an ovarian cyst during her New Year’s Eve performance: ‘It was extremely excruciating.

“SNL” chief Lorne Michaels told her something important.

It might have seemed like Miley Cyrus was having fun at Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party, the NBC special that rang in 2023, but she was actually going through a ‘pretty traumatic experience.’

‘I had a medical emergency,’ the singer explained on the May 21 episode of The Zane Lowe Interview on Apple Music. ‘I had an ovarian cyst rupture, and we didn’t exactly know what was happening at the time. It was pretty traumatic because it was extremely excruciating. But I did the show anyway, even though it was really, really hard on me.’

Although we now know she was in pain, she appeared to be in high spirits as she shared the stage with her godmother Dolly Parton, who cohosted the night. The two performed several of their hits together, including Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’ and Parton’s ‘Jolene’ and ‘I Will Always Love You.’

Guests included Sia, David Byrne, and Paris Hilton, along with Saturday Night Live stars of the time, such as Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, and Bowen Yang. Executive producers of the extravaganza included SNL creator Lorne Michaels.

For a while afterward, Cyrus admitted she even considered stepping away from the music career she began as a child. A conversation with Michaels, however, is what changed her mind.

‘I had dinner with Lorne, and he said something that has stuck with me ever since. He told me, ‘Six months. Everyone has six months to feel sorry for themselves, and then we start to rebuild,’ Cyrus said. ‘By then, it was Christmas, and New Year’s came right after, so my time to shut down had expired. He told me, ‘You have no idea how many artists have sat in this chair and told me they were quitting music. Everyone goes through this. Everyone has these traumatic experiences.”

Of course, Cyrus didn’t stop making music. She’s set to release her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, along with a film, on May 30.