Miley Cyrus' co-star hits back at claims he smoked pot on Hannah Montana set

Daily Mail​

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Miley Cyrus ' former castmate hit back at her claims that he had smoked pot while on set of Hannah Montana.
The Grammy winner, 32 - who recently made a surprise appearance at Beyonce's Cowboy Carter show in Paris - made the allegations about Mitchel Musso on Thursday's episode of her mom Tish and sister Brandi's Sorry We're Cyrus podcast.
At one point, the singer revealed that her father Billy Ray Cyrus had smoked marijuana on set before claiming Musso, 33, had the same habit.
The actor - who had played the character of Oliver on the hit series from 2006 through 2011 - denied the claims in a statement to E! News.
'Well, that's not how I remember it,' Musso expressed. 'However, I've got plenty of stories from those years that might be worth having a conversation about.
'If we're revisiting Hannah Montana history - just say the word,' he continued, before emphasizing that he had no hard feelings towards the performer.
'All love to Miley and the fam, even when the rewrites get this creative,' Mitchel concluded to the outlet.
Cyrus and Musso had worked alongside other stars on the Disney channel series including her dad Billy Ray, Emily Osment, Jason Earles and Moises Arias.
The show was a hit and aired on the network for a total of four seasons - and also spawned concert films and other projects such as Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009).
The show also garnered a number of accolades during its time on the air, such as receiving four Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Children's Program.
Along with Hannah Montana, Mitchel is also known for his roles in the animated series Phineas And Ferb as well as Disney XD's Pair Of Kings.
However, he was written out of the latter after his arrest in 2013 for DUI suspicion - and had also been driving while intoxicated under the legal age since he was age 20 at the time of the incident.
In 2023, he was arrested for public drunkenness and allegedly stealing a bag of chips from a motel in Texas. Later that same year, the two major charges of public intoxication and theft were dropped.
During Miley's appearance on the Sorry We're Cyrus podcast which dropped on Thursday, she cleared the air about what went down behind the scenes of Hannah Montana.
When a fan wrote in asking, 'What's a core memory from the Hannah Montana days that still makes you laugh?'
Miley didn't miss a beat, replying, 'Dad smoking pot and everyone blaming me for it' - and her sister Brandi quickly confirmed, 'I do remember that.'
The Flowers hitmaker pointed to Tish and added, 'And he wasn't sharing, 'cause this one wasn't toking yet.'
Tish - who's since been open about her marijuana use - chimed in with a laugh, recalling how she tried to defend Billy Ray at the time: 'They were calling me saying 'B-Ray' was smoking pot and I was like, "Absolutely not, he would never do that!"'
The trio then cracked up as they joked about Miley's former Hannah Montana castmate Mitchel Musso taking the blame instead.
Back in January, Tish opened up about why she stopped smoking weed, despite previously embracing her status as a self-proclaimed stoner.
'It was kind of by accident that I stopped smoking,' she explained on the Jan. 2 episode of the podcast.
'I went on vacation and it was somewhere I could not have pot and like three days in, had the worst anxiety I've ever had in my life. And when I tried to smoke again… Nope.'
After quitting cold turkey, she realized that what once calmed her nerves had started to do the opposite.
Smoking, which used to help with her anxiety, now 'makes it even worse.'
Still, she admitted she's considering revisiting it as she continues to struggle with her mental health.
'The last seven months has been so bad for me, like major anxiety,' she said at the time. 'It really did just help me in so many ways. And lately I just have not been okay.'
Brandi, while not a user herself, voiced her support for her mom giving it another try. 'She was great on weed. Best version of herself.'
The marijuana bombshell comes after Miley unpacked a decade's worth of family drama and trauma and revealed how she mended all of her fences.
She grew up to be a global pop star in her own right, though she revealed on last Tuesday's episode of Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky, her road to fame was filled with family strife.
She teased the whole family went through a, 'really difficult, dark decade' but they were able to get through it.
Miley revealed on the podcast that the family was able to mend their fences without therapy.
'We're so messy, we didn't even do any of that,' Miley joked of her family struggles, revealing the reason a therapist wasn't involved.
'Just to get each other into a room to get to counseling would have been a war,' Miley admitted.
She told Lewinsky that at one point of the 'dark decade,' half of her family members were not speaking to each other.
Miley admitted she, ' had a lot of loyalty' to her mother Tish, who split with father Billy Ray back in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage and sharing Miley, Braison, 31 and Noah, 25.
Before their official split and divorce that was finalized in 2023, Miley said that her parents were on-and-off, as she revealed how that affected her.
'[I] watched what happens when you don't clean things up as they're happening,' Miley admitted.
'They really do stack. And then all of the sudden you go, "Oh my God, it's been 10 years and this is a mess I barely even know how to start. This is emotional hoarding,"' she admitted.
Ultimately, the singer, 'cleaned all that up,' during a, 'really important part of [her] year … putting those lines of communication back together.
'I just kind of busted through the pile that stacked and just [went], "I'm here, you're here, let's start by having a good time together and then as we start bringing some happiness and joy into each other's life, then we'll be in a better place to have these conversations,"' she admitted.
Cyrus also added it 'was easier to [wave] a white flag' than go through counseling with someone else.