Miley CyrusMiley Cyrus is opening up about how her public persona has affected her love life over the years, often at great cost. The Flowers singer said that a particularly provocative period of her life, when she was making the 2013 album “Bangerz,” caused her relationship with her then-fiancé, Liam Hemsworth, to derail. “When me and Liam split up the first time with Bangerz, it was because it was like, I was this provocateur and it was highly sexualised,” Miley said during a candid sit-down with the Every Single Album podcast last week.She then contrasted that image with the one she tried to cultivate during her 2017 album Younger Now, when she and Liam were back together.“And so, for Younger Now – the album – the reason I kind of like played into this innocence was because I think that was a way to keep and a way to stay [innocent],” she claimed. Miley described her train of thought as, “if I’m younger now, if I’m less awake as this sexual woman publicly, then this is going to be the way that I can keep a happy home”.