United Kingdom, Oct. 3 -- Miley Cyrus is convinced she was the "first person to ever be cancelled".

The 32-year-old singer rose to fame on kids' show Hannah Montana - in which she played a schoolgirl with a secret career as a pop star - but she faced an angry backlash after she walked away from her family friendly role and embraced a raunchy new persona as she launched her music career away from the Disney series.

Miley has now called the reaction to her transition "brutal" and believes she was the first celebrity to fall victim to cancel culture. In an interview on CBS Sunday Morning, due to air on October 5, she said: "I was the first person to maybe ever be canceled, I guess.

"I didn't know until I was older, actually, how brutal it...