Miley Cyrus has a message for Hannah Montana: ‘I still love you 15 years later’

Sweet niblets! It’s been a whole 15 years since “Hannah Montana� premiered on the Disney Channel, catapulting a young Miley Cyrus and her musical alter ego to superstardom.

On Wednesday, Cyrus shared a heartfelt message she penned to her breakout character in honor of the hit series’ anniversary on social media. “Hannah Montana� ran for four seasons, from 2006 to 2011, and starred Cyrus as a teenager balancing dual lives as an anonymous high school student and a chart-topping pop sensation.

As its catchy theme song indicates, the concept of the show allowed Cyrus’ character to live “The Best of Both Worlds� — as Miley, when wearing plain clothes and her natural brunet hair, and as Hannah, when rocking flashy costumes and a signature blond wig.

“Since the first time I slid those blonde bangs over my forehead in the best attempt to conceal my identity. ... I didn’t know then... that is where you would live forever. Not just in [me], but millions of people around the world,� Cyrus wrote in her letter, captioned “I still love you 15 years later� and dated March 24 on purple “Hannah Montana� stationery.

“Although you are considered to be an ‘alter ego,’ in reality there was a time in my life when you held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands. ... But a lot has changed since then. You were like a rocket that flew me to the moon + never brought me back down.�

The “Midnight Sky� artist went on to recount some of the many “firsts� and “lasts� she experienced along her “Hannah Montana� journey, from “embarrassingly� getting her first menstrual period on set “the day a ‘cute guy’� in the cast invited her to lunch to filming the series finale.

“It was bittersweet to know I would be leaving YOU (a HUGE piece of me) behind in Stage 9, which is where I say I grew up when asked,� Cyrus continued. “You have all my love + upmost gratitude. Breathing life into you for those six years was an honor. I am indebted not only to you Hannah but to anyone + everyone who believed in me from the beginning.�

She also opened up about losing her grandfather shortly before the first season of “Hannah Montana� debuted. (He did get to see the trailer, however, which he regarded as “one of the proudest moments in his lifetime.�)

And she gave a shout-out to her costars — Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, Jason Earles and Billy Ray Cyrus, her on- and offscreen father — who became her “family� as she was “seeing them more than my own.�

“Not a day goes by I forget where I came from,� she wrote. “A building in Burbank, California with a room full of people with the power to fulfill my destiny. And that they did. They gave me you. The greatest gift a girl could ask for. I love you Hannah Montana. Forever, Miley.�