Pop star-turned-Olympic hopeful Cody Simpson has spoken out in the wake of his split from A-lister Miley Cyrus. The Australia native, 24, was asked about his ex during a May 29 interview with 60 Minutes Australia, 10 months after they called it quits. “I’d known her for a long time at that point,” he said. “She’d kind of acted almost as like a, not as a mentor, but she was always a heightened creative person.”