Miley Cyrus and Flavor Flav in Las Vegas in September 2012.Photo:Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Clear Channel)
Years ago, Flavor Flav mistookMiley CyrusforGwen Stefani— and she responded with playful vengeance.
After a video went viral of Cyrus appreciating Flav for now knowing her name while backstage at the 2024 Grammy Awards, the Public Enemy rapper opened up about mistaking her for Stefani in a new interview on the podcastJust B with Bethenny Frankel.
“There was a time a few years back when they both had the same exact haircut. That’s the thing that got me,” said Flav, 64, seemingly referring to Cyrus' short, blondeBangerz-era ‘do. “When I ran across Miley first time ever in my life I was like, ‘Oh my God, Gwen Stefani, Gwen Stefani!’ You know what? Miley didn’t say anything. She just went along with it.”
Miley Cyrus and Gwen Stefani.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so stupid,'” added the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, who then explained how Cyrus reacted: “Smacked me in the face. She smacked me in the face. Miley Cyrus slapped Flavor Flav in the face, and I said, ‘I won’t let it happen again. We laughed it off.”
While backstage at the 2024 Grammys earlier this month, according to avideo shared to social media, Cyrus jokingly called Flav out for mixing her up with the No Doubt frontwoman in the past.
Flavor Flav and Miley Cyrus in Los Angeles on Feb. 4, 2024.Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
In the clip, seemingly taken after Cyrus performed “Flowers” on the annual awards show, the rap icon called theHannah Montanaalum’s name, and she walked over to give him a hug. “You know it’s me! I made it,” she exclaimed, while standing beside her mom, Tish.
“You don’t think I’m Gwen Stefani anymore,” Cyrus told Flav. “You used to call me Gwen every time I saw you.”
“I know,” he admitted, to which Cyrus assured him in response: “I love it.”
Miley Cyrus at the Grammys in Los Angeles on Feb 4, 2024.Kevin Winter/Getty
Kevin Winter/Getty
The pair then exchanged “I love you"s, before she gestured to Flav’s signature clock necklace and said, “You know what time it is!”
Flav poked fun at the interaction onX (formerly Twitter), writing in a post, “My girl Gwen Stefani,,, I mean MILEY CYRUS @MileyCyrus Give My Girl her FLOWERS.”
Flavor Flav in Las Vegas on Feb. 11, 2024.Kevin Mazur/Getty
Kevin Mazur/Getty
Elsewhere on theJust Bpodcast, Flav said Cyrus “lit up like a Christmas tree” during their Grammys meeting. “Miley love herself some Flav,” he quipped.
Prior to the awards show this year, the two stars met on multiple occasions, including the 2012 iHeartRadio Music Festival as well as VH1’sBig in ‘06broadcast.
source: people.com
