Grammy-nominated singer Noah Cyrus is opening up on her recovery from a Xanax addiction that began when she was 18.

In a wide-ranging interview published Thursday, the 25-year-old daughter of “Achy Breaky Heart” crooner Billy Ray Cyrus and younger sister of pop superstar Miley Cyrus, said that her new album — “I Want My Loved Ones to Go With Me” — played a huge part in her “healing” journey.

“I feel a huge disconnect from the girl who was really struggling with addiction and the place that I was in [back then],” she told People magazine for its latest cover story.

Cyrus, who first went public in 2022 about her struggles with Xanax, said she started getting addicted to the downer in 2018 while in a former relationship. The problem reached an all-time high right around the time the pandemic hit.

She told People there came a moment in 2020 — when she starting falling asleep in the middle of a TV interview that ultimately never aired — that she realized she needed to address the situation.

In reflection five years later, Cyrus admitted to being “really deeply saddened for [herself], because only you really know what you’re feeling inside.”

“It’s a feeling that I don’t wish on anyone, to not want to be alive anymore,” she said. “I very much encourage people to talk about things if they’re open and if they’re ready to try to seek that help for themselves. … If you have the ability to try to take on the challenge … I think there is a place that you get to where you have a much better outlook on things, and you start to see a much more positive place that you’re going to get to.”

Engaged to German fashion designer Pinkus since 2023, Cyrus says her new positive outlook now includes the excitement of wanting to become a mom.

“This is something that I want more than any other goal in my life,” Cyrus told People. “I want to be alive for this; I want this to happen. And that was just something that I wasn’t used to feeling, because before, I didn’t really feel that connected to life. So this is a very strong place that I’m newly in; I’m in the happiest and best, most secure spot I’ve been in in a very long time.”

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