Miley Cyrus is getting candid about her relationship with each of her dad and mom, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus.
Amid latest rumors of estrangement from her father, the Grammy-winning singer was requested on a brand new episode of David Letterman’s Netflix sequence My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction if she would take into account Billy Ray her hero.
“Honestly, my mom is my hero,” Miley responded earlier than detailing why she’s additionally “grateful” for her dad, who rose to fame following his cowl of “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992. They later starred as a father-daughter duo on Disney Channel’s Hannah Montana from 2006 to 2011.
“He has a relationship and a foot on the ground to the real and to nature and he always did, even when he was super famous,” she mentioned. “I’m grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me. He’s almost 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.”
The “Flowers” singer later defined to the host how every of her dad and mom contributed to her success in “different” methods, noting that “they can’t be weighed on the same scale, actually.”
“Without my dad, I know — I mean, not just literally I wouldn’t be sitting in this chair, I wouldn’t exist — but I would not, who I am as a person, it wouldn’t exist. Because my dad, as a creative and as an artist in the way that his brain works, has always made me feel safer in my own mind because we’re very similar in our ideas,” Miley mentioned. “So I think a lot of his perspective on reality and on life, I’ve inherited from him, more so than the way that I was raised — which really, my mom raised me.”
The “Used To Be Young” artist’s newest remarks come amid a rumored household fallout that allegedly started after Tish filed for divorce from Billy Ray in April 2022. Since then, Tish tied the knot with Dominic Purcell in August 2023, and Billy Ray married Firerose in October 2023. Nevertheless, the nation singer reportedly filed for divorce from Firerose, whose actual identify is Johanna Rose Hodges, final month, citing irreconcilable variations and inappropriate marital conduct in court docket paperwork.
The Cyrus household rift rumors solely heated up in February when Miley noticeably excluded her father from her Grammy acceptance speech for file of the yr. “I don’t think I forgot anyone,” the singer mentioned after expressing her appreciation for her mother and older sister, Brandi.
At one level, Letterman introduced up the rumors, asking Miley immediately, “There’s not estrangement here with your father, it’s just the way things are played?”
“Yeah,” the “Wrecking Ball” singer mentioned. “I think, what is so beautiful is that my parents, they served their children, and I know this. My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”
Miley additionally expanded on the present dynamic between her and her dad and mom after being requested if it’s “unlikely that both parents would share an equal role going through your life [since] it’s always going to be one or the other is closer as things evolve?”
“It’s really just not the closeness,” she defined. “I think it’s the capacity in which my mom was raised by a completely intact, beautiful family. Actually, my mom was adopted so my mom was chosen. Her parents couldn’t have children so they wanted her more than anything in the world. So my mom came in to this world being wanted and being loved and being given the most beautiful life. My grandmother spoiled not only her but me completely rotten. My dad didn’t have that.”
Miley went on to element the variations in Billy Ray’s childhood.
“The way my dad was raised, he grew up very poor in a very small town,” the “Party In The U.S.A.” singer continued. “His parents were divorced when he was very young. My dad had a pretty rough childhood and my childhood, really — I mean, we can go on and talk about the hard times and the struggles; you know, turning in my homework and learning my lines was tough — but I had food, I had love, I grew up in a beautiful big house. 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.”
