Noah Cyrus Says Therapy “Completely Saved My Life” in Interview with Billboard & BetterHelp

This article was created in partnership with BetterHelp.

Noah Cyrus has always been open and vulnerable when it comes to her mental health. It’s a through line in her art. Billboard and BetterHelp teamed up to bring viewers an exclusive interview with Cyrus at one of the best moments of her life, personally and professionally. We chatted with Noah, before the Brooklyn stop of her I Want My Loved Ones to Come with Me Tour, about her feelings around her new album, this stage of her life, and the importance of therapy. 

When describing her latest album, Noah said “This album is much more about transitioning and moving forward and it being more of a comforting release, rather than something painful that you’re walking away from.” Which is completely fitting for this stage of her life. She released a critically acclaimed album with “I Want My Loved Ones to Come with Me,” toured North America, played the Grand Ole Opry, and announced she’ll be performing at StageCoach 2026. On top of that, she’s found the love of her life in fiancé, Pinkus.  

Getting to this point had its ups and downs but through therapy, she’s wound up on top. Noah described her lowest point at around 20 years old, when she was addicted to downers. “I had recently lost my grandmother at the time, and it just felt like I had pushed myself so far away from my family and my mom, who I’m so close with and I had really just gotten myself in such a dark place and I felt so alone.” That is when she reached out to her therapist and said she started to be honest with them. 

After coming up with a plan to treat her addiction and unpack all the layers of trauma that she had accumulated, Noah said the first six months were really difficult but after a year she really started to see a change in herself. But to this day she says she’ll still get triggered by things. “Living with somebody, opened my eyes up to a lot more that I wanted to work on with myself.” Noah says moving in with her fiancé opened her eyes to what else she could achieve through therapy. It made her think “How do I coexist with this person and how do I not let my past traumas get in and hurt this person or fracture this relationship? Because that was the last thing I wanted.” 

While thinking about her journey with therapy, Cyrus believes it isn’t something you work on for a few weeks or months, but a long process that takes time. With time, it made her day-to-day life better. “It helped me just enjoy life more. When I really started to take therapy seriously, after my addiction, I did not want to be alive. I did not have any feelings or connection to life and what it feels like to live.” During our interview, she got emotional saying “When I look back on it, I think about how I didn’t know at the time that I would be at a place where I am standing here now in an interview like this being able to talk about my success in getting healthier.” 

In this moment, Noah says she can enjoy the success of her new album, her tour, her engagement, and looks forward to the future where she can start a family and become a mother. “I feel so lucky to have the resources of therapy and recovery treatment and being able to discover this side of myself that actually does love myself and does want myself to live and be happy and have a life to feels fulfilled.” 

By sharing her story, Noah is helping her fans see the opportunities that come from therapy. “My one hope for anyone that’s feeling lost with that is that therapy can bring that to them. And that therapy really did, it like completely saved my life.” Cyrus ended our interview with a message to viewers who may be afraid to start therapy, saying “Just giving it that one try and getting your foot in the door even if it doesn’t work for you, I encourage it because of how much I can just sit here and say from my personal experience how much it helped, and changed, and saved my life in so many ways.”  

If you or someone you know is struggling, BetterHelp can help you take that first step. Learn more at betterhelp.com/tunedin