United Kingdom, May 22 -- Miley Cyrus "needed to fall one more time" to help her sobriety journey.

The 32-year-old singer has opened up on her struggles with addiction and how it influenced her hit song 'Flowers', while she acknowledged she isn't "proud" of her actions during that period around 2020's 'Plastic Hearts' album.

She told Apple Music 1's 'The Zane Lowe Show': "I know I needed to fall one more time. I just, I had to. It just never would have happened this way. I just never would have been sitting here.

"There were times in that section . I'm not proud of them. Definitely not my best moments, not some of my best work, any of that.

"But it all led me to writing 'Flowers,' which then was some sort of key right into the lock of...