Miley Cyrus is feeling a bit under the weather this weekend after the 16-year-old Hannah Montana star cut her uvula, the small, fleshy mass of tissue in the back of the throat, while enjoying a piece of chicken on Saturday.

In a vlog posted on MileyWorld.com yesterday, Miley said: “The reason I sound like this is because I cut my uvula. The way the nurse explained it to me is, you know that cartoon when that really obnoxious baby screams and you see that waggling thing around in their mouth? That’s a uvula. So I cut my uvula today on a piece of chicken. I put too much dressing on it and it got slippery and it got caught and it cut my uvula.”