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thanever.Shealsomadea comment
aboutpeoplethinkingshe is boring
now thatshe’s married. It’s so far
from the truth, but I think that’s re-
ally how she thinks. She is probably
more concerned about her career
than Liam. She’s selfish like that. She
probably thinks she was at her peak
when she was ‘edgy’ and Liam is
making her boring.”
Even knowing all he knew, sourc-
es say Liam was devastated when
Miley told him it was over, and after
calling her father, Billy Ray, in a
fury, says the insider, he retreated
to his native Australia to be with his
brother, Thor actor Chris Hems-
worth. Miley, meanwhile, acted like
she didn’t have a care in the world.
She and Kaitlynn shamelessly ca-
vorted across Europe not only mak-
ing out but posting sexy swimsuit
snapshots and videos of themselves
dancing and singing while wearing
next to nothing.
The day after the breakup an-
nouncement, Miley also shared a
pointed post that included senti-
ments like “Don’t fight evolution,because you will never win” and
“changeis inevitable.”Liam,a source
cl ose totheactortellsInTouch, “is
stunned by Miley’s behavior in Italy.
His family cannot believe Miley is
flaunting this for the whole world to
see. They think she’s a disgrace.”
Despite the shocking circumstanc-
es of the split, the truth is, multiple
sources tell In Touch, tensions had
been building for months. A source
told In Touch just in July that Liam’s
long been “annoyed” by Miley’s lust
for attention and wild antics when
they’re in public and that he’s never
liked it when she shares intimate
details about their romance in in-
terviews. (In early July, Miley —
who identifies as pansexual — un-
apologetically confessed to Elle that
she was still turned on by people
outside her marriage: “I’m in a het-
ero relationship, but I still am very
sexually attracted to women. People
become vegetarian for health rea-
sons, but bacon is still f---ing good
and I know that.”)
If and when to start a family had
also become an issue, according tosources. “Liamwantedbabies,and
Miley didn’t anymore,” claims the
sourcewithtiesto theformercouple.
(Talk about different outlooks: In
May, Liam told GQ Australia that
kids were in the cards “one day” and
quipped he wanted “10, 15, maybe
20” with the singer, who just weeks
later told Elle she did not “want to re-
produce” because she knows the
earth “can’t handle it.”)THE FINAL NAIL
Kaitlynn clinched the split. Liam and
Brody have been friends for years
(see box at right), and that’s how Mi-
ley met Kaitlynn, notes the second
insider. (Kaitlynn is also friends with
Miley’s sister Brandi.) “She knew Mi-
ley likes women, so when her own
marriage was falling apart, she’d turn
up the charm. Miley would light up
when she was with Kaitlynn, and one
thing led to another. Miley asked Kai-
tlynn to join her on this trip and paid
for it — she wanted Kaitlynn to just
sit back and relax and said she would
take care of everything.”
But in the weeks leading up to their2009
FALLING IN LOVE
In the summer of
2009, Miley, then a
16-year-old Disney
star, falls for 19-year-
old Australian co-star
Liam on the Georgia set
of The Last Song. A few
months later, she says
Liam’s “become my
best friend in the whole
wide world.”
2010
EARLY BREAKUP
Just a few months after
making their red-carpet
debut at an Oscars event,
the young lovers split that
August, only to reconcile in
September and split againin
No vember — but theywere
fir mly back on by 2011.2012
THEY’REENGAGED!
After nearlythreeyearsof
on /off dating,a 22-year-old
Li am proposes to a 19-year-old
Mi ley on May 31, 2012, witha- 5-carat diamond ringfrom
je weler Neil Lane.
2013
IT’S OVER!
One day
after they
confirmed
theirbreakup,
Li amis photo-
graphed
ki ssing
ac tressEiza
González.
“Wewere
goingin
di fferent
di rectionsand
it ’s justwhat
ne eded to
happen,” Liam
later says,
while Miley
reveals she
didn’t feel
she could
“be [her]self”
around Liam
anymore.