Moments after accepting the Best Video Award at Sunday’s event for her hit “Wrecking Ball,” the star took a puff of what looked like a joint onstage at the Ziggo Dome, which is located in — Where else? — Amsterdam.

Photographers captured the celebratory reefer toke, but it was scrubbed from MTV’s U.S. broadcast of the show, which aired several hours later.

MTV’s own web site reported Miley was “smoking weed,” but a spokesman for the network said the company had no comment on the on-stage smoke or MTV’s decision to snuff it from its broadcast stateside.
Cyrus had showed up dressed in a backless (and nearly frontless) outfit. Emblazoned across it were images of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, underscored by the message “Stop The Violence.”
Regardless, the stunt, typical Miley, guaranteed major chatter for an event that was already bound to generate plenty of it.

After all, Sunday’s show offered the Euro answer to the VMAs that were held in Brooklyn in August, which catapulted to the first order of fame — or notoriety, in the eyes of some — for her twerk-seen-round-the-world.

For a further connection, Sunday’s event featured a performance by the man Miley twerked on, Robin Thicke.
Sunday’s event also featured a performance by Cyrus’ “dance” partner that night — though singer Robin Thicke had promised reporters that the two wouldn’t sing together this time.
He performed the song they originally did together, “Blurred Lines,” only on Sunday his rendition of his mega-hit featured a different guest: rapper/model Iggy Azalea, who refrained from grinding on him.

The night kept the marijuana motif going with Snoop Dogg’s performance of the weed-and-booze classic “Gin and Juice,” and with a comic bit in which Will Ferrell, playing his dim-witted Ron Burgundy character, walked into an Amsterdam “coffee shop” and unknowingly downed a pot-laced brownie.

Also high at the event — in a far different way — was Katy Perry, who sang while she was suspended far above the stage. Bruno Mars, meanwhile, let his dancer do the acrobatics — on a stripper pole.

Cyrus reprised her ‘twerking’ dances during the EMAs.
Appearing in more grounded guises were Eminem, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, and Kings of Leon.

Miley offered two numbers, the torch song “Wrecking Ball,” and an out-of-this-world show-opening take on “We Can’t Stop.”

She had arrived in a recreation of a space ship, which delivered her to an intergalactic bar filled with aliens.

There, she twerked a female space dwarf and stuck out her tongue, in what has become a signature, if highly criticized, move.

The headline-grabbing star performed surrounded by aliens in an intergalactic space station while clutching a mic shaped like a rocket ship as she sang, “We Can’t Stop.”
Harry Styles, the most popular member of boy band One Direction, picked up the night’s first award, for “Best Look.”

Bruno Mars took the Best Song prize for his “Locked Out of Heaven,” while Katy Perry seized the honor for Best Female Artist.

The top electronic nod went to Avicii, while Eminem received both the Best Hip-Hop honor and a special Global Icon Award.

Appropriately, this hallucinogenic display took place in a city known for high times: Amsterdam. The show was tape-delayed to run several hours later on MTV in the U.S.
The prize for Best UK and Ireland act went to One Direction while fellow teen idols Justin Bieber and Austin Mahone took Best Male Artist and Artist on the Rise honors, respectively.