Miley retracts apology for nearly nude 2008 Vanity Fair portrait
LOS ANGELES: In a rant punctuated with a profanity, singer-actress Miley Cyrus has retracted an apology for a nearly nude portrait published in Vanity Fair in 2008.
Then aged 15, she had worked with renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for a feature in Vanity Fair. One of her portraits shows her wrapped in what looks to be just a satin sheet, with the skin of her back exposed.
Miley Cyrus was on a joyful throwback photo tweeting spree on Sunday afternoon when she resurfaced the 10-year-old scandal for which she once expressed regret.
That apology has been retracted.
Cyrus posted the cover of a 2008 issue of the New York Post, which ran the sensational headline “MILEY’S SHAME,” followed by the lede “TV’s ‘Hannah’ apologises for nearnude pic.”
“IM NOT SORRY,” Cyrus tweeted. “(Expletive) YOU.”
In a caption for the photo published in that Vanity Fair interview, Cyrus did not seem fazed by the pose potentially being seen as controversial: “No, I mean I had a big blanket on,” she was quoted as saying. “And I thought, ‘This looks pretty, and really natural.’ I think it’s really artsy.”
But when a media frenzy ensued, Cyrus did issue an apology as Disney attempted to protect her wholesome image.
“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” a Disney spokesperson said at the time, while Cyrus released a statement of her own: “I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic,’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed. I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologise to my fans who I care so deeply about.”
So much for the apology.