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Miley Cyrus has braved a lot in her life as a pop star: swinging around on a giant wrecking ball, gracing the MTV VMAs nearly naked in 2013. But the singer is apparently no match for … stationery? While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, she admitted that the holiday season presents a unique challenge for the Cyrus household owing to her phobia of paper. Pointing to a note card on Kimmel’s desk, she began gagging and said it made her “want to vomit.”
Cyrus’s no-no list of products includes — but is not limited to — books, paper, dry hands touching said paper, letters, envelopes, and Amazon packages. Cardboard, she explained, is “extra dry,” which is why she prefers her fiancé, Maxx Morando, to open all their deliveries outside their home. Cyrus admitted that, in fits of disgust, she has thrown away “lovely letters” that friends and family members have written her without ever reading them. She’s much more of a text, email, phone call, and Kindle kind of girl.
One notable exception to her phobia? Rolling papers. Kimmel pointed out that Cyrus seemed pretty comfortable putting paper to her mouth in her extracurricular life, and she agreed that those are perfectly fine. Besides, she is working on a way to overcome her paper phobia. “There does need to be some sort of intervention, and I am gonna look into … maybe EMDR,” she said. “Or getting hypnotized, because it is affecting my everyday life.” Well, consider yourself warned. Do not, under any circumstances, send Cyrus fan mail. A voice note will probably suffice.
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