because you know, they're over before you know it. now it's just about enjoying these moments and you know, you can go from moment to moment to moment to moment. what started out innocently with teddy bears became anything but at the vma awards in september. a performance that had tongues wagging. >> it became that moment of, a singer/songwriter/entertainer finding that special moment. >> i thought it was sloppy, and i didn't think it was professional enough for her. she's got to go back to drawing board. >> about a woman who most of america knew as wholesome han nah.

a disney character living a double life. if her recent appearances have made anything clear, it's that miley isn't montana anymore. >> i can give you an update on what she's been up to. she was murdered. >> tonight, in the spotlight, miley cyrus. >> valentine's day 2014, sliding down a super sized tongue. miley launched her bangerz concert tour, a wild, raunchy ride complete with straddling, crotch grabbing and her trademark twerk, owning up to her antics from 2000thry. miley cyrus, more outrageous than ever. but on april 15th, the grinding and twerking came to a halt with a surprising announcement. two months into her salacious tour, the singer was hospitalized after a severe

allergic reaction to antibiotics. the rest of her u.s. shows were postponed, and miley fans crushed. >> i'm devastated. >> pretty mad. >> but miley stayed in touch with fans from her hospital bed, giving updates, posting photos and shooting down rumors she was hospitalized because of drug problems. quote, happy 4/20 easter, i'll be where i have been the last week, in bed, crying, not stoned. >> after her two week hospital stay, she was more emphatic, telling reporter in london, i didn't have a drug overdose. i took antibiotics that a doctor gave me for a sinus infection and i had a reaction. out of the hospital, she got plenty of reaction after she released a racy s & m inspired video called tongue tied. wearing fish net stockings, latex underwear, and pasties, she stirred the controversy even

while on the mend. then may 4th, after cancelling eight shows, she announced her comeback. she posted a video on instagram to prove she was ready. on may 6th, miley's tour resumed in london, pigging up like she never left. back on tour, and back on track. barely a trace of the wholesome young girl from tennessee. it was 1994, the first time the world met little miley cyrus, just two years old on a country music show. she was already a showstopper. >> do your eyes, miley. do your eyes. very talented child. >> perhaps a sign of things to come. >> this is very dangerous. you're teaching her to flirt at a very early age. you're going to be in big trouble when she's about what,

12, 13? >> whenever the camera was on, she was on. you could also see that from an early age. i always got the sense she was calculated, but like in a good way. >> calculated and destined for big things. not entirely surprising for a little girl who was originally named destiny hope cyrus. >> i thought it was her destiny to bring hope to the world. you know, i do think that this is her purpose. her path. you know, i think she's a natural born singer, song writer, entertainer. >> and it didn't hurt that her father was a hit maker. ♪ don't tell my heart >> the fact that he had one big hit with achy breaky heart puts him on a level where he had access to, you know, musicians and producers and record company people that she probably would not have met were denot for her father. >> what could be better than having a famous father?

having a music legend like dolly parton for a godmother. she was just a toddler back in 1993 when she was on the stage with many of music's biggest names. >> everybody was holding her. she had her hands up. she was singing. the last guy to hold her at the end of the song was tony bennett. and tony bennett came as the song ended. he said, you have a special little girl here. >> yet, despite being surrounded by fame, miley had a normal childhood. raised a southern baptist, home was a small town of thompson station, tennessee, on a 500 acre farm. >> i love being outside. we would build big fires on top of the hill. and sit out and look at the stars and roast marshmallows. i was good at those types of things with my kids. i wasn't good at sitting them down and saying, you know, let's

do your algebra now. >> but he was good at looking out for his little girl who even as a toddler had her eyes on bigger things. >> producer stephen peterman. >> they were doing a video thing of him at the farm, and miley was out there and she was 2 1/2, maybe, and they were at a barn on the property. and miley was standing up on some landing, and billy said, be careful, honey. and she put her hands on her hips and she said i'm not afraid of anything. and that's 2 1/2. >> fearless and bold, two traits that continue to define her as she grew up, went to school, and became a cheerleader. >> she went to a private evangelical school, a christian school for a year. >> rolling stone editor josh eells had rare access to miley. >> she would ask to leave after a year. she has a couple different versions of why so i'm not sure which one is the one. one class, she told the class

what french kissing was. and the other version, her teacher was an old woman who got around on a motorized schooler and she stole it at one point and was cruising around. whatever the case, it was not the perfect fit. >> what was a great fit for miley? music. >> she had an engenious way of getting what she wanted by being charming and lovely and enthusiastic and willing to take it on as well. >> by 2001, what miley wanted became crystal clear when the family left tennessee for toronto. where billy ray was filming the tv show "doc." >> she kept saying, daddy, can they write something in for me? they wrote her in one episode. from the time they did that

episode, she said, can they write me in next week, next week? a few weeks after that, we went to see mama mia in toronto. i'll never forget it. it was that combination of acting and the performance onstage of the singers, and she said, that's what i want to do. i'm going to be a great actress and a singer/song writer. this is what i'm going to do. >> and miley went for it. >> i'm miley cyrus and i'm auditioning for zoey. >> in 2003, against her father's wishes, she auditioned for the role of a lifetime. >> i think you could see the sort of long range plan when you look at her hannah montana audition. you could see she knew exactly what she was doing. >> but producers weren't so sure. when we come back, miley's battle to become hannah montana.

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auditioning for the role of zoey

in hannah montana. >> in 2003, 11-year-old miley hoped this audition would be her ticket to hollywood. >> the truth of the matter is she was the least likely person to get this job. >> producer steve peterman was part of the hannah montana casting team. >> she was an 11 that looked 9. way too small, way too young. >> miley, dead set on becoming a star, wouldn't give up. >> hey, i'm miley cyrus and i'm 12 years old. >> she read for us, and she read for us over and over again. she would do some lines fabulously. wonderfully, and she would miss other lines by a mile. >> oh, my gosh, i know. i'm an idiot. >> but i couldn't take my eyes off her. >> two years later, producers still weren't convinced. they gave miley one last shot.

>> now, you know, this is your final audition for this project. >> only my very best friends know. >> it ultimately came down to miley and one other girl. with miley, there was something about her that was so alive and so fearless, and all of us finally agreed to take the chance. >> at 13, miley cyrus became hannah montana. >> you're so gross. >> and was living her dream. ♪ i'm a lucky girl whose dreams came true ♪ >> miley was a perfect fit for the plot line. a school girl with a secret double life as a teen pop star. >> billy alert, 18 seconds. >> she's your breast friend. sooner or later, you're going to have to tell her. >> i think that's one of the things that really connected

about hannah montana was the realism that, wait a minute, this is art imitating life imitating art. >> miley auditioned her own dad for the part of her tv dad. >> get ready, get set. >> one of the episodes called ready, set, go. i wrote that as miley left for california. the series was picked up. i knew that her life and our lives as a famiy was going to change. >> the show, and miley, were a smash. hannah montana became one of disney's highest rated tv series. and miley shot up to teen idol status. >> i think you could see the sort of long-range plan when you look at her hannah montana audition. you could see that she knew

exactly what she was doing. she knew that the role would be a stepping stone to other things. merchandise, tv, music. she was really the first star to embrace all of these things. >> in 2007, she released hannah montana 2, meet miley cyrus. the soundtrack to her series that debuted under her real name. her second album would go platinum. in 2008, a hint that miley was feeling the pressure of being one of the biggest teen stars on the planet. >> it's kind of like a mother. it's like trying to let their young one go or whatever and let them grow up. i feel like they're kind of having a hard time with that. >> miley's next conquest, a film career. she landed a part in high school

musical 2. and then the voice of penny in the animated movie "bolt." >> bolt is lost. he could be anywhere by now. >> and in 2009, miley brought her tv character to life on the big screen in hannah montana, the movie. >> like they say, it's all about the publicity. >> did $31 million in its opening weekend. it really cemented her as more than a singer, more than an a actress. she was an all-around performer. >> and she was white hot, but disney's billion dollar baby would soon get her first taste of controversy. it all started with a provocative vanity fair photo shoot. 15-year-old miley, barely dressed, no longer the girl next door. then miley shocked fans when she spiced up her performance at the

2009 teen choice awards by pole dancing to her hit "party in the usa." the video went viral and parents coastal. >> her fans, their parents were like, whoa. this isn't the hannah montana we know. >> we couldn't do much about that. it's that fearlessness, that sense of spontaneity, the sense of what is she going to do now? it means that she's going to, at times, make mistakes. >> but miley was unphased. >> i think that the media always tries to kind of overdo it. it's really no one else's business how my parents raise me or how i'm being raised. >> yet even her parents were concerned when a video surfaced of miley taking a bong hit. >> okay. i'm about to lose it now. >> i was alarmed for my daughter's safety. >> miley downplayed the video saying it wasn't pot she was smoking and apologized for the

vanity fair spread, but her image was changing. her 2010 album and single said it all. ♪ i can't be changed >> just look at the album title, can't be tamed. she put it right out there. i feel like we saw it play out in front of our very eyes. this person breaking loose of the disney character. >> in 2011, the split became official when miley quit the show that made her a global phenomenon. hannah montana was no more. coming up -- >> you were down there and i said, you know what? back off. it's almost a brand new miley. >> a brand new miley and a brand new controversy.

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i'm going to jump out of a [ bleep ] plane. >> two years after hannah montana ended -- >> i'm scared. >> 21-year-old miley cyrus is on the edge. she is skydiving with josh eells of rolling stone magazine. extreme, unafraid, and ready for reinvention. this is the new miley cyrus. >> what a landing. >> we were both kind of terrified, i think. it was a situation where neither

of us really wanted to back down. i think she likes doing -- she's kind of pushing the envelope right now. >> it's a very difficult thing to do, and few can pull it off. when you make that break, it has to be a break. you can't leave one foot in the preteen, tween world. >> miley moved out of her parents' house and in with boyfriend liam hemsworth, quit acting to focus on a bold new pop album, and started distancing herself from her wholesome hannah montana image. >> she got a new label. and new management. she felt like she needed a change because not that they were going to hold her back, but just that they might be sort of scared of the way she was going to go. >> and miley was going to go for big risks. with her first single "we can't stop" she released a video full of sex, drugs, and her wor words --tiate shaking it like a

stripper". >> it was a glimpse into the post-hannah montana miley cyrus. we saw a woman with a shock of white hair rolling around in a bed playing with plush toys. >> derek interviewed her for harper's bazaar. >> she knew it was her make or break record. she told the record label if you give me this chance to do my version and it goes belly up and it's a bust, i'll do whatever you want. >> she risked it all and it worked, breaking records, going viral on vivo, and reaching over 10 million views within 24 hours of its release. now, miley could do exactly what she wanted to, and what she wanted was a memorable performance at the mtv video music awards, where millions of americans would get their first look at the new miley. >> she was a little nervous because this was the big rollout

of y of, you know, this is who i'm going to be now. >> on stage with robin thicke, miley stripped down to nothing but nude underwear, grinding with a foam finger, and she twerked. >> she twerked her way into history, must be said, and i was sitting next to lady gaga's mom, and i remember turning around just to see what those around me were doing, and everyone had the same expression on their face, which was like, are you seeing what i'm seeing? >> miley's reaction -- >> she laughed the whole thing off. it didn't seem to phase her. she knew it was going to get a reaction. that's part of why she did it, but everyone is talking about her. >> and she said exactly what she thought in her mtv documentary, the movement. >> it's a strategic hot mess. right now, i'm in a point in my career where i can be exactly who i want to be, just go for what you want to do. >> the controversy only fueled her confidence.

in her next video, miley was sometimes naked while riding a wrecking ball and licking a sledgehammer, and this time, she wanted to show something different. her vulnerability. >> two thirds of the way through the song when the bridge hits and you really, you know, you see her shed a tear. >> a tear over a tortured romance, rumored to be about her fiance, liam hemsworth. >> i think she wants to show the more sensitive side of her and not just a party girl side, too. >> soon after its release, miley and liam announce they were breaking up for good. wrecking ball became the number one song in the country. >> the one thing that you can't deny, even going back to hannah montana, she has a really good voice. she knows how to sing.

and wrecking ball just puts it out there. ♪ i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ >> i'm going to list some words that some people have used to describe her. disaster. definitely not. very calculated and very self-aware. >> gifted. >> yes. definitely gifted. has talent. >> fearless. >> very fearless. >> and finally, genius. >> oh, i don't know about that. let's not go crazy. >> the new miley is in control. i think she's really smart and knows what she wants to do with her career next. >> and what she does next, she told mtv, will be unforgettable. >> every time i do anything, i want to remember, this is what separates me from everybody else. i do get so overwhelmed when i'm going to perform because

everything has to be perfect. everything has to be so huge. everything has to be a moment. >> you wanted the best and you got it. the hottest band in the land, kiss. >> the iconic look. >> kiss are the four most recognized faces on planet earth. >> the outrageous costumes. >> where did you start? the outfits and the makeup, the pi pyro. everything is over the top. >> that wagging tongue, indestructible rockers. >> kiss is kind of like the cockroach of rock 'n' roll. you can't kill them. >> who evolved from band to brand. >> people talk about the golden years of kiss in the '70s. >> how cool is that? come on. >> t