Miley Cyrus 'healing' after 'deep character challenge' of losing Malibu home in California wildfires

Miley Cyrus has opened up about “healing” after losing her Malibu home in the devastating California wildfires.

Cyrus’ home, which she shared with fiancé Liam Hemsworth, was destroyed when the fires raged through Malibu in October.

The singer has now opened up about going through the “deep character challenge” and how it helped her to understand what her father has always told her about “adjustments”.

Speaking on On Air With Ryan Seacrest, Cyrus said: “Honestly, I’m in a really good kind of healing place right now.

“My dad has always told me, ‘Life is a series of adjustments.’ Sometimes we never understand what our parents are telling us until we start to experience life more.

“I’m starting to really understand what that means now. I think experiencing something as life-changing and devastating as a natural disaster, it’s a really deep character challenge, I think, to see the way you react to loss.”

Cyrus, who is in the middle of promoting Nothing Breaks Like a Heart featuring Mark Ronson, explained that she had a choice between “post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth”, using the natural disaster as a “growing experience”.

When the couple returned to their charred home, all that remained was four concrete letters spelling the word love.

Cyrus, 26, added: “I felt that that was really poetic. You can always rebuild a physical structure, but that love that can’t be destroyed is always there and always stays strong.”

Hemsworth, 28, first revealed the devastating news on November 13, posting images of the ruins left by the fire in a heartbreaking Instagram post.