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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Home video of singer Miley Cyrus using a bong apparently to smoke the hallucinogenic herb salvia hit the Internet on Friday, capping a year which has seen the teen star throw aside her squeaky clean Disney image.
The video obtained by celebrity website TMZ.com was said to have been shot days after Cyrus turned 18 years-old in November.
It shows the Disney Channel "Hannah Montana" star giggling and laughing after smoking from a large glass pipe, commonly called a bong. TMZ said sources close to Cyrus told the celebrity news website that the video was shot by one of Cyrus's friends but the substance was not marijuana, which is typically smoked in bongs.
"Is that me tripping!?", Cyrus exclaims in the video, after using the bong and mistaking another person at the party for her ex-boyfriend, actor Liam Hemsworth
The herb salvia divinorum has hallucinogenic properties but is not illegal in California. According to a 2007 U.S. survey on drug use and health, about one million people had used it that year.
Representatives for Cyrus did not return requests for comment on Friday.
The video made headlines around the world and even caused one betting site, bookmaker.com, to place odds on what might next be revealed about Cyrus. Examples included whether she might attend rehab, or be dropped by her record label.
Cyrus, one of the world's best-known teen celebrities, has made strenuous efforts this year to distance herself from the "Hannah Montana" character she began portraying on Disney Channel four years ago, winning millions of young fans.
After taping the last season of "Hannah Montana", she played a rebellious and sullen teen in romantic movie "The Last Song", stepped out publicly with co-star and boyfriend Hemsworth, released a series of raunchy pop music videos, and adopted figure-hugging stage outfits.
The new image has dismayed parents of some of the younger fans of "Hannah Montana", whose final episode does not air until the spring of 2011.
Adding to Cyrus' woes this year, her father Billy Ray Cyrus and mother Tish announced in October that they filed for divorce after 17 years of marriage.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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