HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Miley Cyrus is thankful that her boyfriend, Australian actor Liam Hemsworth, knew nothing about the mania surrounding her Hannah Montana background.
"[Liam has] become my best friend in the whole wide world. I love him," she reveals in this weekend's Parade magazine. "He really respects me for who I am because coming from Australia, he really didn't know me as the celebrity I am here. I got to tell him about myself on my own terms and my own way. He had no preconceived notion of who I was supposed to be."
Cyrus, who co-stars with Hemsworth in the upcoming film The Last Song, has been a paparazzi target for some time now thanks to her hit Disney show, but it's a scene she has grown increasingly fearful of.
"The other day I felt a little bit in danger for the first time because there were too many photographers following me in too many cars," she says. "And I have to ask myself, 'Why would any other 50-year-old man who was stalking a 17-year-old girl go to jail, but not these guys? I'm not as American as anyone else?' I mean, they couldn't sit outside of a high school but they can sit outside my recording studio. It's creepy."
With her Hannah Montana days nearing an end, Cyrus will have plenty of opportunities but she definitely doesn't plan to follow in her father's footsteps by launching a country music career.
"It scares me," Cyrus says of the country music scene. "It feels contrived on so many levels. Unless you're wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and singing and whining about your girlfriend or boyfriend leaving you it's not going to sell. I think that's why my dad finally got out of it. You have to wear those cowboy boots and be sweet as pie. It makes me nervous, the politics of it all."
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