Tish Cyrus Says She ‘Picked My Battles’ with Miley Cyrus as a Kid Even When Singer Was Doing ‘Crazy Stuff’

Tish Cyrus is getting real about her relationship with Miley Cyrus while she was growing up.

The mother of the pop star appeared on the latest episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, where she discussed what her daughter, 31, was like as a child.

“There were times that she was doing crazy stuff that every child does,” Tish, 57, told David Letterman.

When the host brought up that he heard the “Flowers” singer had a curfew until she was 20, Tish confirmed the rumor. as Miley chimed in: “Listen, rules are meant to be broken. Just because I had one didn’t mean I followed one.”

The manager/producer explained that she wanted to protect her.

“Honestly, my goal was to keep Miley home as long as possible under my roof and honestly, I think my biggest fear was her moving out,” Tish said of her daughter. “She definitely had financial ways for her to move out before she was 18. You see that a lot with kids in Hollywood, but she didn’t.”

She added, “She was home. And I think I really picked my battles with her.” Elsewhere in the episode, Miley spoke about her relationship with her parents, calling Tish her “hero.”

The Grammy-winning artist also discussed the good and the bad things she’s learned from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

“He has a relationship and a foot on the ground to the real and to nature and he always did, even when he was super famous,” Miley said of her country star dad, 62. “I’m grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me. He’s almost given me this map. And there’s a map of what to do and what not to do, and he’s guided me on both.”

She also admitted that she “inherited the narcissism from my father.”

“Without my dad, I know — I mean, not just literally I wouldn’t be sitting in this chair, I wouldn’t exist — but I would not, who I am as a person, it wouldn’t exist. Because my dad, as a creative and as an artist in the way that his brain works, has always made me feel safer in my own mind because we’re very similar in our ideas,” Miley said.

She continued: “So I think a lot of his perspective on reality and on life, I’ve inherited from him, more so than the way that I was raised — which really, my mom raised me.”