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"Well, this shouldn&amp;apos;t come as a huge surprise. Six months before they officially called off their engagement and on-and-off four-year relationship, Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth were, like, so totally on the brink of breaking up -- so says Cyrus herself in a new interview for the November issue Canada&amp;apos;s Fashion magazine. The &amp;quot;Wrecking Ball&amp;quot; singer, 20, says that she wanted to end things with the Australian hunk, 23, back in February of this year.\r\n\r\nThe envelope-shredding singer dealt with the anguish in song, penning the track &amp;quot;Drive&amp;quot; as she struggled in vein the dump her former Last Song costar. &amp;quot;I wrote it while I was working on Valentine&amp;apos;s Day - emotionally it was such a hard time,&amp;quot; reveals Cyrus. The song is &amp;quot;about needing to leave someone but not really wanting to completely cut yourself off from the relationship. It&amp;apos;s a time when you want to leave but you can&amp;apos;t. It&amp;apos;s also about moving on.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAlas, the pair finally did give up the ghost, confirming their split earlier this month. Cyrus also opens up to Fashion mag about -- what else? -- her MTV Video Music Awards performance. As she tells it, the originally planned performance with Robin Thicke was far more extreme than what audiences saw.\r\n&amp;quot;I was trying to slap Robin&amp;apos;s ass but no one saw it! Believe me! MTV edited so much,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;They cut almost everything I did. I&amp;apos;m proud of that performance. I feel like music is really stale right now.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe snipes of her fellow performers that night (which included Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kanye West, Drake and others): &amp;quot;I could have guessed what a lot of artists would have done that night. The reaction to what I did has been insane. I think it was a breath of fresh air! For the people that don&amp;apos;t get it, you weren&amp;apos;t meant to.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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