Miley Cyrus 2013 MTV VMA Performance: Back Up Dancer Was 'Shaking and Crying'

A back up dancer for Miley Cyrus has blasted the MTV VMA performance she participated in, E News reported Friday.

Cyrus drew controversy and scorn for twerking on Robin Thicke and gyrating with a foam finger at the MTV VMAs in August. However, one of her back up singers has lashed out at the suggestive performance for another reason. Hollis Jane, one of the little people who performed as a bear, posted a letter to her website in which she described her humiliation.

"I had never been in a performance where I was purely meant to be gawked or laughed at. I will never forget that performance because it is what forced me to draw my personal line in the sand," she wrote on her blog.

Jane explained that she was left shaking and crying after rehearsing at the Barclay Center. She was comforted by her friends.

"They were waiting for me and I walked up to them and broke down. I love being the center of attention, but that was something different. I was being stared and laughed at for all of the wrong reasons. I was being looked at as a prop...as something less than human," she said.

The 24-year-old actress said she was offered an opportunity to tour with Cyrus but turned down the opportunity. She had more worth for herself.

"When I did the VMAs, I did feel like that. For the first time I felt truly ashamed of being a little person. We were being used simply because we were little. It felt like society still saw us as a joke, despite the fact there is literally nothing different about me other than the fact I am small,” she said.