Miley Cyrus recalled a terrifying moment when lightning struck a plane she and her mother were on during her segment on an episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers last week. The “Prisoner” hitmaker, 29, sat down with host Seth Meyers to open up about the completely “unexpected” and “really scary” incident back in March in which she and her mother were flying to Paraguay for her performance at the 2022 Asuciónico music festival. The plane had to make an emergency landing, she said, after the aircraft was caught in the middle of an unforeseen storm.
Two months ago, Cyrus did upload a video of the storm, a photo of the damaged plane and stressed to her fans that everyone on-board was okay, but this is her first time speaking about the frightening experience since then. When speaking to Meyers, Cyrus shared that she sat on her mother’s lap during the horrifying occurrence and added that she “was pretty sure it didn’t matter about the seatbelts at this point.”
Miley Cyrus remembers the traumatizing moment her plane was struck by lightning mid-flight on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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“It was really very strange, because it was unexpected weather,” she said, adding that she felt very intuitive and uneasy boarding the plane. She revealed that even hours before she went to the airport, it seemed as if she could sense something unpleasant was on its way. “I woke up that morning [and] said, ‘Something just kind of felt off and not quite right,'” Cyrus said. Coincidentally, the festival she was headed to had “already been flooded and canceled” by that point on the plane, she noted.
“So there was just a lot going on,” the “Plastic Hearts” singer continued. “And everyone’s like—my guys in my band, who are just rock n’ rollers, are like, ‘We got to get to the fans! We got to still play the gig!'” Cyrus said she had to tell her bandmates “no” as they were stuck “in the middle of the forest” after the landing, in a “broken-down airplane.” To make matters worse, she said that the festival stage was “sinking” from the floods.
On March 23, Cyrus wrote on Instagram to her 172 million followers, when she first mentioned the plane. “To my fans and everyone worried after hearing about my flight to Asunción. Our plane was caught in a major unexpected storm and struck by lighting,” she said at the time. “My crew, band, friends and family who were all traveling with me are safe after an emergency landing. We were unfortunately unable to fly into Paraguay. I LOVE YOU,” she added.
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Thankfully, no one onboard was injured or faced anything worse, and Cyrus and her band were able to still perform at Lollapalooza Brazil soon after. They landed in the South American country a “couple days early” in order to “take a few days to recuperate because all of us were a little traumatized,” she confessed (and to say this is understandable would be an understatement!)
