Once upon a time, before she came out as a pansexual ganja priestess, Miley Cyrus was a baby Disney star who was rewarded for maintaining a squeaky clean image with lucrative merchandising deals at money factories like Walmart.
But then somebody introduced the little baby Miley to marijuana and the rest, as they say, is history.
In an interview with Variety, Miley shared an anecdote about what happened when Walmart tried to get her to stay on the straight and narrow and how she was like, “no thx, byeeeeeeeeee.”
“I had a clothing line at Walmart and got kicked out, because they said you had to choose weed or Walmart,” she explained. “And you see what I did — I chose weed.”
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