Noah Cyrus Says She's Still "Confused" About Her Breakup With Lil Xan

If it seemed to you that Noah Cyrus and Lil Xan's breakup came out of nowhere, you're not alone — Noah herself apparently felt just as blindsided by the whole thing, which, you'll recall, went down almost entirely via Instagram Stories over Labor Day weekend.

This week, Noah sat down for an interview with Entertainment Tonight in which she admitted that while she still doesn't fully understand why the split happened, she's ready to move on and focus on herself, her new music, and all the other exciting projects on her agenda.

When asked how she was holding up post-breakup, Noah told ET, "I'm fine, I'm totally fine. I think it's just something that we both will move on from, and it's all love, it's all good." That said, "I'm confused, that's all I'm gonna say, is I'm confused, but that's cool," she admitted, explaining, "It was a shock for everybody, I think. I didn't know it was gonna happen." But, Noah said, she'd much rather focus on her new EP (Good Cry, dropping this Friday), a subsequent tour, and her just-dropped, limited-edition merch collaboration. "Honestly, there's no point in drama, really, just because — tour! EP! PIZZASLIME!" she said.

"I just gotta focus on me right now. And I don't really need to have a boyfriend right now anyways, and I realized that when everything blew up in my face. Like, 'Noah, just take the time to work on yourself and make yourself happy, and you don't need a man to make you happy,'" she said, adding, "That's for all of you girls out there: You do not need a guy to make you happy, that's for sure."

While she's working on moving on from Lil Xan and moving forward with her life, the 18-year-old shared that her past relationships do still feature prominently in her new music. "I learned a lot about relationships in the past two years, coming out of one that I was in for two years, that there's obviously ups and downs to a relationship," she said. "That's what inspired the record. Every song was just from my heart, about this relationship and about the way I was feeling. I didn't know how to communicate in any other way but my music. At this point, some of these songs I would send to my boyfriend at the time and would be like, 'I don't know how else to talk to you, here's a song.' So, the record's really personal."

And though Noah's music has always been incredibly personal, she said it hasn't always felt as true to her intentions as Good Cry does, and she said she's "so stoked" to share with the world. "I wrote a whole album already a year ago, and life kinda smacked me in the face a little bit, and I rewrote a ton of stuff and just made this EP on its own as a side thing. And I realized that this EP and this type of music is, like, the music I want to be making. I don't know, I just rolled with it," she said. "I'm beyond excited. It's hard to explain because it's just been, like, two years of, 'OK, we're going to put an album out here!' But then we didn't put the album out, because I just wasn't ready. I didn't know what I wanted to talk about. I had nothing to talk about until I, like, lived."

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