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"They fired her over a cake?" — Internet reacts to Miley Cyrus revealing she was replaced by Selena Gomez after being cast in "Hotel Transylvania"

On June 11, 2025, X page Pop Crave quoted Miley Cyrus' statement about being replaced by Selena Gomez after being cast in Hotel Transylvania. Selena Gomez voiced the character of Mavis Dracula in the movie, which was supposed to be done by Miley.

Miley made the statement concerning Hotel Transylvania on Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky's latest episode, which aired on June 10, 2025.

"I, as a joke, got my boyfriend a p*nis cake for his birthday. I was the lead in Hotel Transylvania and they fired me and replaced me because I had made an inappropriate adult joke. But I was 18 so yes I was fine to work in a kids movie but I'm not a kid." the singer mentioned

In August 2019, Miley went on a tweeting spree and listed some of the lowest points of her life, wherein she mentioned getting "kicked off" the movie for buying her former partner Liam Hemsworth a p*nis cake and licking it.

In the wake of Miley's new album, Something Beautiful, the X page's tweet amassed a lot of traction with netizens taking to the social media platform to express their opinions.

Questioning the event, an X user tweeted:

"they fired her over a cake? hollywood is softer than my pillow collection. miley was too iconic for that movie anyway 💀"
"What's the correlation between getting rejected for a role & getting bf a corny cake. What I am missing ??" an X user commented.
"Miley got replaced over a cake. Selena got hired for playing it safe. Mavis went from chaos energy to corporate polish overnight. Hollywood doesn’t cast talent. It casts PR strategies. Hotel Transylvania wasn’t just animated. It was sanitized" another X user mentioned.

On the other hand, some internet users claimed that Selena did a better job of being the voice of Mavis than Miley would've:

"It was good she was replaced. Selena did a great job playing the character." an internet user stated.
"Miley's wild, but Selena's the OG Hotel Transylvania queen." a netizen remarked.

A netizen also criticized the Flowers singer for always victimizing herself:

"Miley’s entire career has been victimizing herself. I’m so tired"

Miley Cyrus admits to feeling trapped by the personas she has intentionally created

In her interview with Monica Lewinsky, Miley Cyrus spoke about her latest album, her family life, her career after Hannah Montana, and feeling trapped by the personas she intentionally created. In her statement, Miley was seemingly referring to her characters: Miley and Hannah Montana in the Disney series.

Sharing that she does feel trapped sometimes, the singer said that the concept of Hannah Montana portrayed Miley as a "regular girl" who has zits and can't get a date. She added that the character was portrayed as someone who's not special and interesting but rather regular.

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Describing Hannah as a "tween drag queen" who puts on bedazzled jeans and has thousands of people chasing her, Miley Cyrus said:

"I don't know if that was completely healthy for this psyche as a young impressionable girl to be you know every day and absolutely did my writers you know. They're teen comedy writers, they're not Dr Amen. Dr Amen might be sitting in the writer room going 'I don't know if this is positive like you shouldn't reinforce this to her every single day.'"

For the unversed, Dr. Amen is an American celebrity doctor who practices as a psychiatrist and brain disorder specialist. Miley Cyrus added that playing two characters on the Disney show made her create a character of herself, wherein she believed Hanna Montana is more valuable than her real self.

"So that's why maybe part of me doesn't like to take photos out with people when I'm not in that that drag cuz I you know I don't really want to be judged for my t-shirt and jeans." Miley Cyrus expressed

In other news, Miley Cyrus has been making headlines with her latest album, Something Beautiful, which was released on May 30, 2025. The project is a visual album featuring 13 tracks.

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