Miley Cyrus posts powerful message after man grabs her without her consent

"She can be with her husband. She can be with her girlfriend. She can be naked."
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Rachel Thompson
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Miley Cyrus has spoken out after she was groped by a male fan in Barcelona, Spain.

Cyrus tweeted a video clip of the incident, in which she appears to have been grabbed by the hair by a man, who proceeded to pull her towards him and kiss her.

Cyrus tweeted a response to the incident stating she "CAN'T be grabbed without her consent" alongside the hashtag #DontFuckWithMyFreedom.

Her tweet — which gained over 100K retweets and almost 400K likes — garnered a great deal of support from fans.

Topics Celebrities

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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