Pop star Miley Cyrus vowed to quit the red carpet scene mainly because she’d rather not be spotlighted at the glitzy glamor events when so many people throughout the world are suffering.
“I will never do a red carpet again,” she told Elle magazine. “Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that’s red? Because I’m ‘important’? Because I’m ‘famous’? That’s not how I roll. It’s like a skit, it’s like Zoolander.”
Instead, the “We Can’t Stop” singer would much rather focus her time and energy on improving the lives of homeless and LGBTQ youth, among other groups, through the nonprofit organization she founded, The Happy Hippie.
“For a long time, I couldn’t sleep because I just felt so guilty,” she told the magazine. “I was covered in rashes because I was so stressed. Even today, I dropped my water on my hike and felt like such an a–hole.”
“There are children being sold into sex slavery; how can I go on a hike right now?” she continued. “So now I try to do as much as I can through Happy Hippie.”
Cyrus, 23, is slated to return to “The Voice” this month as a full-time judge after spending last season as a special advisor.
The singer and actress is also set to star in Woody Allen’s upcoming Amazon series, “Crisis in Six Scenes,” which reportedly centers on a suburban American family in the 1960s whose lives are greatly changed by the arrival of a contrarian house guest.
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The new series premieres on Sept. 30.
The issue of Elle magazine with Cyrus on the cover, meanwhile, hits newsstands on Sept. 20.