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Miley Cyrus says Katy Perry tried to get her homeless VMAs guest drunk

Miley Cyrus has admitted that she found it difficult keeping the background of her guest partner at the MTV VMAs secret.

The singer brought homeless runaway Jesse to the event on Sunday (August 24) and his identity was revealed when he went on stage to collect Cyrus's Video of the Year prize.

He spoke on behalf of homeless youths and the singer then invited people to donate to a homeless shelter in Hollywood.

Speaking to Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Cyrus admitted that Katy Perry tried to get Jesse drunk - because she didn't know about the impending speech.

The 'Wrecking Ball' star said: "I'm like, 'This kid has to give this speech!'. I'm like, 'Katy, please don't get Jesse drunk right now...'. I didn't want to tell her because I was scared if someone found out, they'd try to stop me...no-one knew."

Opening up about her reasons for the move, Cyrus added: "I just didn't realise my platform, I didn't realise my power. I really realised it after the VMAs [last year]...there's something special and there's only few people that experience this that no matter what I do, there's no winning or losing, it's just going to be talked about. Period.

"There's going to be talk, so what do I want them to talk about? If I'm going to be given this loud of a voice and this big of an image and this big of a platform and this huge of an opportunity to talk to young people in America right now, what am I really trying to say? Because I don't think what I was trying to say is what happened the year before."

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Watch Jesse at the VMAs below: