Miley Cyrus pens letter to her 'alter-ego' Hannah Montana: 'I still love you 15 years later'

It's been 15 years since the first episode of “Hannah Montana” debuted on Disney Channel.

Miley Cyrus, who played the iconic popstar with a double life, marked the show’s 15th anniversary by posting a long, emotional letter to her “alter ego” on social media.

Now a successful pop star herself, the “Wrecking Ball” singer began by reflecting on her first days as Hannah and not realizing how much she would mean to her and to millions of people around the globe.

Dear @HannahMontana, I still love you 15 years later. #HMForever pic.twitter.com/TBqZd5aOKh

— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 24, 2021

“Hi Hannah, It’s been a while. 15 years to be exact. Since the first time I slid those blonde bangs over my forehead in the best attempt to conceal my identity. Then slipped into a puke pink terrycloth robe with a bedazzled HM over the <3,” Miley wrote.

“I didn’t know then…that is where you would live forever. Not just in mine but millions of people around the world. Although you are considered to be an ‘alter ego,’ in reality there was a time in my life when you held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands,” she added.

Miley went on to recall how she and Hannah have “been through it all together,” from the death of her grandfather while she was filming Season 1, to falling in love and meeting friends on set who would later become her “family.”

“I experienced falling in love for the first time in those years. Embarrassingly started my period in a pair of white capris, of course on the day a 'cute guy' was cast + asked to have lunch with me. Instead I spent it in the bathroom with my mom sobbing + scrambling to find a pair of fresh denim,” Miley said.

“I gained so many friends over the 6 years spend on set. Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso + Jason Earles became my family. I was seeing them more than my own,” she added.

Miley eventually got to the point when she had to say goodbye to “Hannah Montana” and Stage 9 where she would say she “grew up when asked.”

“It was my home,” she said.

Finally, the singer expressed her gratitude to “Hannah Montana” and the people who made it all possible.

She also said that playing the character was "an honor."

"With all sincerity I say THANK YOU! To Disney’s entire team, all fellow cast members, special guests, crew, agents + managers, ESPECIALLY my mommy who took me to every lesson and audition even when it required leaving town or making a cross country move which with my siblings so selflessly underwent," she said.

"Not a day goes by I forget where I came from," she added. "A building in Burbank, California with a room full of people with the power to fulfill my destiny. And that they did. They gave me you. The greatest gift a girl could ask for. I love you Hannah Montana."

She signed her letter with "Forever, Miley."

"Hannah Montana," a sitcom that follows the double life of Miley Stewart, aired on Disney Channel in 2006 to 2011. —Margaret Claire Layug/JCB, GMA News