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Final summer season, we confirmed that Billy Ray Cyrus was ending his marriage after simply seven months.
For a lot longer than this, nonetheless, observers have been questioning:
Is his relationship with well-known daughter Miley Cyrus over with as properly? Simply the place do these singers stand with one another?
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 10: Billy Ray Cyrus, Tish Cyrus and Miley Cyrus attend the 61st Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Middle on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Photos)
“I inherited narcissism from my father,” Cyrus mentioned throughout interview with David Letterman a current episode of his Netflix collection, My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction.
This looks as if a pointed comment, however Cyrus went fairly deep on the connection together with her dad.
“He has a foot on the ground to the real and to nature and he always did, even when he was super famous,” Miley defined of Billy Ray, who struck it big within the nation music house together with his cowl of “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992.
“I’m grateful for with the ability to watch him forward of me. He’s virtually given me this map.
“And there’s a map of what to do and what not to do, and he’s guided me on both.”
Miley Cyrus accepts the Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency award for “Flowers” on stage throughout the 66th Annual Grammy Awards on the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles on February 4, 2024. (Picture by Valerie Macon / AFP) (Picture by VALERIE MACON/AFP through Getty Photos))
Final yr, nonetheless, the entire world watched as Miley gained a Grammy Awards — and noticeably didn’t point out her dad on stage.
Upon incomes the File of the 12 months, Miley gave because of her “love” Maxx Morando, alongside together with her sister and her mom, Tish, earlier than telling the viewers:
“I don’t think I forgot anyone. But I might have forgotten underwear. Bye!”
Miley’s mother and father cut up in 2022; each acquired remarried in 2023, though one in all Miley’s brothers and one in all her sisters didn’t attend her dad’s marriage ceremony.
Today, Billy Ray is courting Elizabeth Hurley.
There seems to be some type of rift between Cyrus relations.
Miley Cyrus performs onstage throughout the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Enviornment on February 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photos for The Recording Academy)
Miley didn’t play into it throughout this interview with Letterman, nonetheless.
Sure, she referred to Tish as her “hero.”
And, sure, she emphasised that her mother was the one who actually “raised” her.
However she additionally defended her dad, speaking at size about his tough childhood and the way he didn’t develop up within the type of loving family that her mother grew up in.
Billy Ray Cyrus and Lil Nas X carry out onstage throughout the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Middle on January 26, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photos for The Recording Academy)
“The way my dad was raised, he grew up very poor in a very small town,” Miley instructed Letterman.
“His mother and father have been divorced when he was very younger. My dad had a fairly tough childhood and my childhood, actually — I imply, we are able to go on and speak in regards to the exhausting occasions and the struggles; you already know, delivering my homework and studying my strains was robust — however I had meals, I had love, I grew up in an exquisite massive home.
“And my dad didn’t have that.
“So I have a lot of empathy and compassion for his childhood, which obviously developed to create the man he is now that I have a lot of love for.”
Miley Cyrus and her father Billy Ray Cyrus carry out on the Pyramid Stage on day 5 of Glastonbury Competition at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 30, 2019 in Glastonbury, England. (Picture by Leon Neal/Getty Photos)
As for that alleged household feud?
Or the “estrangement” from her father, as Letter phrased it?
“I think, what is so beautiful is that my parents, they served their children, and I know this,” Miley mentioned on stage.
“My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”
Today, insiders say Miley is “concerned” about her father following his disastrous efficiency at President Trump’s inauguration.
However even when she’s lecturing him about his life-style, not less than she’s retaining the strains of communication open!
