• Miley Cyrus recently quit her vegan diet for health reasons.
  • She said she introduced fish back into her eating routine.
  • The singer says she now feels “sharper” and thinks she was previously malnourished.

Miley Cyrus has been a vegan for years, but she just revealed in a new interview that she’s stopped the diet because it was negatively impacting her health. But, she says, she’s not happy about it.

Miley dropped the knowledge on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Wednesday. “I was vegan for a very long time and I’ve had to introduce fish and omegas into my life because my brain wasn’t functioning properly,” she said. Miley said she also was having intense hip pain that she thinks was due to her vegan diet.

FWIW: Miley knows some people aren’t going to be happy with that news. Vegans “are going to come for me and that’s OK. I’m used to people coming for me,” she said.

Miley said she followed “the strictest [vegan diet] you’ve ever known” from 2013 to 2019, and her first non-vegan meal was cooked by her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth. “My ex-husband cooked me some fish on the grill,” she said. “I cried, like, for a long time. I cried for the fish … it really hurts me to eat fish.”

But while she doesn’t exactly love eating fish, Miley said it’s really improved her health and her thinking. “Now I’m so much sharper than I was and I think that I was, at one point, pretty malnutritioned,” she said. “I remember going to Glastonbury [music festival] and that was a show that I loved—I loved my performance—but I was running on empty.” She’s also added gluten back into her diet, BTW.

Miley said it’s “really terrifying” to leave veganism because of the backlash she might receive, but she wants people to know that she still loves animals. “I have 22 animals on my farm in Nashville, I’ve got 22 in my house in Calabasas, I’m doing all I need to do for the animals,” she said. “But when it comes to my brain … you can’t be vegan and be this quick.”

So, Miley now considers herself a pescatarian (i.e. a vegetarian who eats fish). “That’s where I’m at,” she said. But, in true Miley style, she’s open to other eating plans. “I’m experimenting a lot with my diet, and my body, and my routine and my exercise right now,” she said.

And yeah, Miley called it: She's already getting served some haterade on Twitter over ending her vegan diet.

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Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master’s degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day.