Miley Cyrus on Maxx Morando Engagement, Paper Phobia

Miley Cyrus’ love for fiancé Maxx Morando isn’t paper-thin. 

After all, the drummer helps her with an unusual fear that has plagued the “Flowers” singer for decades: her phobia of paper. In fact, the fear has even impacted her ability to lean into the festive spirit.

“Christmas, I’m known as a little bit of a Grinch because I have a qualm with Christmas,” she told Jimmy Kimmel during a Dec. 4 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “The real problem for me with paper is when people have dry hands and they touch paper and then it’s Christmas and it’s cold and everyone’s hands are dry and they’re all touching paper.”

But the fear extends beyond Yuletide, so much so that Miley—who said she can trace the phobia back to her childhood, when her siblings would taunt her by rubbing paper together—admitted it’s affecting her “everyday life.”

“Someone gets an Amazon box, I’m sick, because the cardboard is the worst of it all,” she said. “It’s extra dry and there’s packaging within it.”

Thankfully, Maxx is there to save the day. “That’s really why I got engaged,” she joked. “Because I just make my fiancé open all the packages outside.”