Miley Cyrus and Kaitlynn Carter stepped out this weekend, looking lowkey but still sort of… performative. I think that’s just the way Miley is – she has to show off her love, no matter who she’s in love with. There’s always been a fair amount of conversation and speculation about when Miley and Kaitlynn started and whether it was an “affair” or merely a friendship-with-benefits as Miley’s marriage fell apart. There’s also been speculation about Miley’s rep announcing the split from Liam, as opposed to Liam and Miley issuing a joint statement. While Miley has always maintained that the split was always Liam’s fault (because he partied?), it definitely felt like she left him. And maybe she surprised him with the split announcement?
Liam Hemsworth learned about his split from Miley Cyrus on social media, sources exclusively tell Page Six. On Aug. 10, a statement went out from Cyrus’ camp saying: “Liam and Miley have agreed to separate at this time. Ever-evolving, changing as partners and individuals, they have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers…”
But that was news to Hemsworth, 29, we hear. Sources close to “The Hunger Games” hunk told us he was blindsided by the statement — and was in Australia at the time. Hours after Cyrus’ statement, images of her smooching new girlfriend Kaitlynn Carter surfaced. The singer then seemed to address the split in a cryptic Instagram caption saying, “Don’t fight evolution, because you will never win” — and by Aug. 12 she was teasing a new tune about the breakup.
Hemsworth didn’t publicly address the split until days later. On Aug. 13, he posted: “Just a quick note to say that Miley and I have recently separated and I wish her nothing but health and happiness going forward.”
Then again, the breakup was not unexpected as things had been going south for months, sources from both camps said. A source told us that the pair was separated for months, and both were photographed without their rings on during that time. And a source close to Cyrus denied Hemsworth was taken by surprise. Meantime, sources close to Hemsworth added that the relationship had indeed been crumbling, but he’d been trying to save the marriage, and wasn’t ready to publicly announce it. Sources close to Cyrus, 26, have reportedly also said she “fought” to make it work. Either way, Hemsworth then filed for divorce in LA on Aug. 21. Reps did not comment.
Eh. My guess is that Liam and Miley were separated (unofficially) and maybe Miley jumped the gun a little bit on the announcement, but Liam probably knew some sh-t was coming out. I also think that given everything we know now – the relationship with Kaitlynn, the release of Miley’s new music, the statement from Miley’s rep – it definitely feels like Miley left Liam, and she left him FOR Kaitlynn, then she tried to orchestrate a narrative like “Liam was a mess” and “the Kaitlynn thing wasn’t an affair.” I don’t have a problem with Miley leaving Liam, and if she dropped the separation announcement on him without warning, that’s fine too. My issue is that she wants to be the badass who leaves her husband for her mistress/jumpoff and she also wants to play it like Liam is a terrible guy who mistreated her and that SHE (Miley) is the victim here. Eh. It doesn’t work that way. Miley looks like the villain.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
I got the feeling they’d been separated and Miley got caught by a photographer being indiscreet and her hastily put together announcement was to get ahead of the photo’s. I also think Kaitlynn is a distraction from a challenged marriage and she was hoping to get his attention in a really childish way and it backfired….
This is exactly what I think happened as well. I think she felt like she had to put out the statement because she’d already been spotted/photographed.
Agree with all of this
I agree that’s probably the case. But that also tells me once again this isn’t very friendly or amicable. Photo agencies will generally give a star a heads up about pictures they are going to publish (for comments to expand the story, for future favours, etc.). So hasty or not she could have had her people give his people a heads up that she was going to announce. If he did find out through social media? That is REALLY cold.
@Anniefanne … “I also think Kaitlynn is a distraction from a challenged marriage and she was hoping to get his attention in a really childish way and it backfired….”
This! SO this. I think that’s exactly what went down. And the fact that she seemed overly hurt by his divorce filing lends support to this supposition.
I think Miley couldn’t clean up after promising she would, so he ended it. He was a sucker to believe her from the beginning. Now, she’s pissed and is trying to make herself the victim.
Meh. Typical entitled celebrity bullsh*t.
And this is why Miley is a faux bad ass. A real bad ass doesn’t care what people think of them. The fact that she went out of her way to change the narrative because she didnt want to look like the bad guy proves this. You left your husband for someone else? Own it. Don’t do the “I’m a rebel I do what I want” schtick and then be worried about how it makes you look.
Some women take an, “If I’m going to be slut-shamed anyway, let it be only for shit I actually did” approach to things said about them, while others take the do what you want and don’t dignify anything with a response approach. Some go back and forth between the two as well. Most of the time I think either way is fine, but the silent approach is only good if it comes from a genuine place- not the other place where girls and women just resign themselves to misogyny and stay silent to not make waves/minimize damage.
Why is Miley dressing like Terry Richardson? For real?
Thought the same thing. She’ll be taking pictures of boring people on boring white backgrounds in no time.
I think her narrative would have worked better if she hadn’t shown up with Kaitlynn Carter.
Yuck. Imagine finding out about your separation on social media and one of the statements starts with “Ever-evolving comma”. Really?!
That first photo seems pretty revealing on a psychological level.
Performative is the very word for them. There’s just nothing natural-looking about the two of them in my opinion, at all. And please don’t for a second think I’m thinking “two women not natural”- god, no. Just, I don’t know, the body language. The way they look walking together. Comparing it to Miley and Liam years ago, or Cara and Ashley walking hand in hand (in the early stages of either romance, of course, in deference to the fact that these two haven’t been together as long as Cara and Ashley have at this point, or nearly as long as Miley and Liam were in the end) or many other couples, something about them just looks so… I don’t know, stiff or forced or staged or something. Just trying too hard, not seeming comfortable or natural together. I don’t think I even have the words to describe what I’m trying to say properly. Looking at them, something is just off.
+1
Agree! I can’t see walking like that being comfortable in the slightest. Arms draped, opposite steps – it would feel clunky and awkward and very much for appearance. Kaitlynn is placing a full hand, flat palm on Miley, which feels weird to even do on my own arm. It seems like such a forced, place-hand-on-hip-now-move-to-stomach (?) PDA set list.
It’s like the cover of a poorly done MC book. Ugh, she’s trying to prove something whatever it is.
These girls are messy, in every sense of the word messy.
Please Liam, don’t ever go back to her. You’ve already given 10 years of your life to that hot mess – no more!
In all these and other pictures of the two, the way they’re twinning, it just seems like Miley can only love on herself.