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Miley Cyrus has had an explosive 2013. She was probably one of the most talked about hip-pop celebs of the year.

The former Disney star sat down with  the New York Times recently and opened up about her bad girl ways – including calling out Joe Jonas for letting two young girls, Demi Lovato and herself put him on to weed. She also addresses the rumors of people thinking she’s a twerking sex addict who pops molly and snorts lines of cocaine.

Gripping stuff. Miley really gets her Kanye West on in this interview…

On how Nelson Mandela made her wonder about race and her future grandkids:

My grandma, who is alive, was living in a time where there was no way in hell that she would’ve ever thought there would’ve been a black president. I mean, never. And my grandma’s like, not even 80, so this is in a short period of time that things have changed so much. I really thought about it a lot when Nelson Mandela passed away, because I couldn’t even imagine living this life and seeing how much it’s changed. So, you know, I look forward to when I’m older, my kids being like, “What do you mean people ever even talked about what color your dancers were?”

On how her VMA performance made people think she’s a tweaking sex addict who pops molly:

I went from people just thinking I was, like, a baby to people thinking I’m this, like, sex freak that really just pops molly and does lines all day. It’s like, “Has anyone ever heard of rock ’n’ roll?” There’s a sex scene in pretty much every single movie, and they go, “Well, that’s a character.” Well, that’s a character. I don’t really dress as a teddy bear and, like, twerk on Robin Thicke, you know?

On going from being trapped in the Disney model to being the celeb other celebs don’t want to be seen with:

I was so jealous of what everyone else got to do, because I didn’t get to truly be myself yet. But now I realize how much they’re not being themselves either. You don’t have to be signed to Disney Channel to be put in a box, or to be rated PG. I’m with artists sometimes, and I’ll take a picture of them or whatever. They make me delete it.

On not caring about smoking bongs or showing her breasts:

Yeah, it’s insane. I’ll get someone to, like, flash me, and they’ll be, like, “You have to delete it!” I had to do that when I was 14 or 15, but even then I didn’t care. Like, if someone was videoing me ripping a bong, I didn’t care, so it’s just funny to me. I’m like: “Dude, you’re 30. Like, why can’t someone see a picture of your [breasts]?”

On how taking a picture with her would be the best thing to ever happen to Ariana Grande:

I don’t have a bunch of celeb friends, because I feel like some of them are a little scared of the association. This is terrible. I was backstage with [the rising pop star] Ariana Grande. I’m like, “Walk out with me right now and get this picture, and this will be the best thing that happens to you, because just you associating with me makes you a little less sweet.”

On waiting until her Disney contract ended to be trill and turn up in public:

Things came out that happened — like, you know, bong videos — when I was on Disney. But I never wanted to do that to Disney. When I was no longer employed by anyone, that’s when I was like, “O.K., I’m going to do my own thing.” But I waited until I felt like I had respectfully finished out what I was supposed to do, you know?

On Joe Jonas being oft by letting two Disney chicks turn him on to drugs:

If you want to smoke weed, you’re going to smoke weed. There’s nothing that two little girls are going to get you to do that you don’t want to do. I thought maybe he was saying that like it was going to make him look badass. We were so young that it’s actually like, “How did you get peer pressured by me?”

On how she won’t do Teen Vogue because she’s like Kurt Cobain:

Right now, me doing any kind of cover for anything that’s like, a Seventeen or Teen Vogue or whatever, the way that I talk isn’t the way that people that are 17 really understand. There was a thing that Kurt Cobain said, something like, “There’s a special place in hell for people that glamorize drugs,” and I never want to be that person that’s, like, talking to 16- and 17-year-olds and being like, “Smoke weed.” I’ve got a little sister. I don’t want her to smoke weed, and it’s not because I think weed is bad.

On keeping it 1 Hunnid:

I don’t know how to not talk the way I talk. I would rather have everything I do be 100 percent honest. I just want to be who I am.

SOURCE: NY TIMES | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty