Following the recent string of controversies involving Billy-Ray's daughter, Laura Izibor speaks on the issue and says that she feels for Miley Cyrus and understands what she is going through.

"To me, she's a kid and I mean a real kid, because after she's after growing up under that kind of pressure. It looks from the outside that these child stars grow up real quick. It looks like that on the outside - but on the inside, they're completely stunted."

Izibor compared Cyrus' antics to the sort of behaviour that is common in many young woman.

"You go to a nightclub and you'll see a young girl of 18,19 with her dress up her arse, sitting on a fella's lap, flirting and drinking. It doesn't mean she's a bad person."

Read the full article in this week's Hot Press.