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HOME CELEBRITY MUSICIANS Miley Cyrus | Source: Getty Images By Andrii Tykhyi Aug 26, 2026 12:49 P.M. What began as a curious pattern stretching across different chapters of her life has only grown more striking with time. Now, another deeply emotional event has added an unexpected new layer to a date the singer once singled out herself. Some dates simply come and go.
For Miley Cyrus, however, August 25 has a strange habit of becoming unforgettable — sometimes for triumphant reasons, sometimes for painful ones. Long before the date took on its latest significance in 2026, Cyrus herself acknowledged that there was something unusually meaningful about it. And once the moments attached to August 25 are laid out together, it is easy to understand why. Miley Cyrus Previously Explained Why August 25 Matters In August 2023, while looking back on different chapters of her life, Cyrus revealed that she had deliberately chosen August 25 as the release date for her reflective single “Used to Be Young.” “I decided to release ‘Used to Be Young’ on August 25th because this particular date historically has been important to me personally and in my career,” she explained in an excerpt shared on her YouTube channel.
At the time, Cyrus did not need to look far for examples. August 25 had already been connected to relationships, family, music, controversy, and some of the biggest turning points of her public life. Here are the moments that made the date stand out. August 25, 2010: Her First Split from Liam Hemsworth Was Reported One of the earliest major Cyrus headlines tied to the date came on August 25, 2010.
That day, Us Weekly reported that Cyrus, then 17, and Australian Actor Liam Hemsworth had split, with Hemsworth’s representative confirming the breakup while Cyrus’ representative declined to comment. The pair had met the previous year while filming “The Last Song,” an adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel. Months before the breakup report, Cyrus had spoken to Ellen DeGeneres about meeting Hemsworth during a period when she had actually planned to stay away from romance. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth met while filming “The Last Song” in 2009, beginning a relationship that would become one of the most closely followed chapters of her personal life.
Their first reported breakup came on August 25, 2010, giving the date an early place in Miley’s history. | Source: Getty Images “I was actually going through a tough time,” she recalled. “I was like, guys just need to be out of my life for a little while. [I thought] ‘I just need to be alone.'” Then Hemsworth made an unexpectedly strong first impression.
“But I met him, and he opened the door for me, and I was like, I have been in L.A. for three years and I don’t think any guy has actually opened the door for me,” Cyrus said. “It wasn’t that he wanted the job. That’s just who he is.
I was like, ‘Wow, that is super-impressive.’ I actually turned to the director and said, ‘He’s got the job.’ He’s hot and he opened the door. Excellent.” Their relationship would eventually become one of the most closely followed romances of Cyrus’ life. But August 25 was only getting started. Miley once recalled that she was not looking for romance when Liam entered her life, but his small gestures quickly changed her impression of him.
Their relationship would go through several dramatic turns in the years that followed, long after that first August 25, 2010, split. | Source: Getty Images August 25, 2013: ‘Wrecking Ball’ Arrived and Pop Culture Exploded Three years later, the date became linked to an entirely different kind of Cyrus milestone. On August 25, 2013, the audio for “Wrecking Ball” was released, setting the stage for what would become one of the defining songs of her career. Yet something else happened that very same day.
Cyrus took the stage with Robin Thicke at the MTV Video Music Awards for a performance that immediately became one of the most debated pop-culture moments of the year. As Rolling Stone later recalled, just six-and-a-half minutes were enough to dramatically alter the public conversation surrounding both stars. Cyrus performed “We Can’t Stop” before joining Thicke for his hit, “Blurred Lines,” with an over-the-top spectacle involving teddy bears, a foam finger, and plenty of twerking. The backlash was immediate, but Cyrus effectively turned the uproar into publicity.
The following day, she boasted about the enormous online reaction, writing, “Smilers! My VMA performance had 306,000 tweets per minute. That’s more than the blackout or Super Bowl! #fact.” Meanwhile, “Wrecking Ball” was beginning its own ascent.
