Miley Cyrus Penned a Letter to Hannah Montana for the Show's 15th Anniversary

“Hi Hannah, It’s been a while."

March 25, 2021

HANNAH MONTANA Miley Cyrus 2006 photo Bob D'Amico © Disney Channel Courtesy Everett Collection

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To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the premiere of Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus has penned a letter for her on-screen alter ego and it's probably the greatest mise en abyme in modern pop culture.

Miley posted the letter — which spanned two whole pages and was written in quintessentially ‘00s pink paper and ink, adorned with HM motifs and glittery stickers, of course — to her Instagram and Twitter accounts on March 24. In it, the singer reflected on her journey since joining the production and how much Miley Stewart’s “fake” identity affected her own as Miley Cyrus. (Miley recently revealed the character influenced her so much that she used to act like Hannah in real life even when she was not working on the series.)

“Hi Hannah, It’s been a while. 15 years to be exact. Since the first time I slid those blonde bangs over my forehead in the best attempt to conceal my identity. Then slipped into a puke pink terry cloth robe with a bedazzled HM over the ❤. I didn’t know then… that is where you would live forever. Not just in mine but millions of people around the world. Although you are considered to be an ‘alter ego,’ in reality there was a time in my life when you held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands,” the letter first reads. (The full text of the letter is included at the end of this article.)

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Miley’s letter was met with fierce excitement from longtime Hannah Montana fans as well as Miley’s own friends and family. Everyone came together on the comment section and quote retweets to shower Miley with love and rejoice in the nostalgia of the show together, but the best response to the letter by far came from Hannah Montana herself. “Nice to hear from you @MileyCyrus. It’s only been a decade.” the official Hannah Montana Twitter account wrote in response. And that’s what you call the best of both worlds — or would it be three now? Four? Too many real life-fantasy crossovers to keep count!

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Aside from the letter, Miley (or per the signature, technically Hannah?) also sent out an assortment of flowers to friends, family, and celebs to celebrate the show’s premiere anniversary. As evidenced on Instagram, among them were Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, High School Musical’s Corbin Bleu, Emily Osment, Billy Ray, and, last but not least, Migos. “I ❤ your song about me! Keep rockin’!”

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If all this HM nostalgia is making you want to relive the series, you are in luck because all four seasons (and the movie) are available to stream on Disney+. Read Miley's full letter below:

Hi Hannah,

It’s been a while. 15 years to be exact. Since the first time I slid those blonde bangs over my forehead in the best attempt to conceal my identity. Then slipped into a puke pink terry cloth robe with a bedazzled HM over the ❤. I didn’t know then… that is where you would live forever. Not just in mine but millions of people around the world. Although you are considered to be an ‘alter ego,’ in reality there was a time in my life when you held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands.

We had an equal exchange in which you provided a superlative amount of fame in return for the anonymity I could gift to you. But, A LOT has changed since then. You were like a rocket that flew me to the moon + never brought me back down. I couldn’t have imagined when taping myself singing ‘I Love ROCK N ROLL’ against a white wall in my [mom’s friend’s] kitchen in Nashville, TN, the name typed in marquee style letters on the front of a first draft script would make my wildest dreams a reality.

You + I have been through it all together my friend. We’ve shared many firsts. A lot of lasts. Ups. Downs. Tears + laughs. I lost my Pappy, my [dad’s] father, while on set filming an early episode of Season 1. He wanted to hold on long enough to catch the [premiere] on March 24th. He passed February 28th. He did get to see the commercial that ran during High School Musical which he claimed was one of the proudest moments in his lifetime + he was a badass democratic state legislature. My heart was broken but fulfilled to know I could carry his name beside my [dad’s] through every credit.

I experienced falling in love for the first time in those years. Embarrassingly started my period in a pair of white capris of course on the day a ‘cute guy’ was cast + asked to have lunch with me. Instead I spent it in the bathroom with my mom sobbing + scrambling to find a pair of fresh denim. I gained so many friends over the [six] years spent on set. Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso + Jason Earles became my family. I was seeing them more than my own.

Well besides my dad who I drove to work with every day until my mom let me buy a Prius. Which then I was only 15 with a permit so my co-pilot was my grandmother ‘Mammie’ who ran my fanclub MileyWorld out of the dressing room kitchen I shared with my dad until our last day in 2011. One I will never forget.

It was bittersweet to know I would be leaving you (a HUGE piece of me) behind in Stage 9. Which is where I say I grew up when asked. It was my home. The finale episode was appropriately titled ‘Wherever I Go’ after a final song by the teen pop sensation herself. You. Me? Hannah Montana. The first verse sings ‘Everything is about to change, A chapter ending but the stories only just begun. A page is turning for everyone.’ And closes on a soaring chorus belting ‘we might be apart but I hope you always know you’ll be with me wherever I go.’ Hannah, I hope you hear me + believe those words are true. You have all my love and upmost gratitude. Breathing life into you for those [six] years was an honor.

I am indebted not only to you Hannah but to any and everyone who believed in me from the beginning. You all have my loyalty + deepest appreciation until the end. With all sincerity I say THANK YOU! To [Disney’s] entire team, all fellow cast members, special guests, crew, agents + managers, ESPECIALLY my mommy who took me to every lesson and audition even when it required leaving town or making a cross country move which with my siblings so selflessly underwent. Not a day goes by [that] I forget where I came from. A building in Burbank, California with a room full of people with the power to fulfill my destiny. And that they did. They gave me you. The greatest gift a girl could ask for. I love you, Hannah Montana.

Forever,

Miley.”

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