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Miley Cyrus: Grilled cheese sandwich was pretty much my best friend

Singer was tormented by tough girls at school

Miley Cyrus's dad is the US country singer Billy Rae Cyrus

Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus was bullied so much at school that she was left ‘friendless, lonely and miserable’.

‘These were big, tough girls. I was scrawny and short,’ Miley recalls. 'They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm.

'It seemed like Operation Make Miley Miserable was escalating to a new level. More like Operation Take Miley Down.’

Miley, who is rumoured to be dating underwear model Justin Gaston, admits it took all her courage to stand up to them.

‘My stomach churned,’ she reveals in her new book Miley Cyrus: Miles To Go.

'I clutched my grilled cheese sandwich like it was the hand of my best friend. It pretty much was my best friend those days. I was done for.

'They started cussing me and telling me to get up. I sat there, frozen. I didn’t know what to do.

'Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. I wasn’t chicken. What could they do to me? I was surrounded by people.

'I stood up, still a foot shorter then they were, and said: “What’s your problem? What did I ever do to you?"’

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