If there is something that helped Miley Cyrus get through the first years of her career, it was the support of her family and, over time, she took it upon herself to publicly thank them, multiple times, for their unconditional support. And as soon as she got the lead role in Hannah Montana, the most successful Disney Channel series, everyone left her lives aside and moved to Los Angeles so that she wouldn’t be alone.
Concerned about her well-being, her father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, accepted a role in fiction just to protect Miley, who was 14 years old when she started working on the renowned children’s television network. For years, in the eyes of the media, they were the perfect family.
However, this all came to an end in April 2022, when Miley’s parents, Tish and Billy Ray, separated after 30 years of marriage. The divorce trial was very long and problematic, and caused the family to split in two, including the five children they have in common.
Since then, Miley and her sister Brandi (who is a famous DJ) are the ones who accompany their mother and take her everywhere they go. The three traveled together to Argentina when the two artists performed at the Lollapalooza festival, days before the news of the divorce was announced. But why did the former Disney girl end her relationship with her father?
While Miley never confirmed the reason for their estrangement, everyone assumes it is due to her father’s new wife. Just six months after separating from Tish, Billy Ray married Firerose, a country singer who is 32 years his junior and just four years older than his daughter.
The 62-year-old performer met his new wife while filming Hannah Montana. At the time, Firerose was 17 years old. The singer assured that she never cut off contact with Billy Ray, since he was the one who advised her during her beginnings in the world of country.
Miley’s anger is more than just an assumption, since she did not attend her father’s wedding. The only members of her family who were present at the event were her sister Noah and her brother Braison, who cut ties with her mother and remain 100% on Billy Ray’s side.
Miley and her younger sister Noah, who is also a singer, were always very close. That’s why she greatly surprised her fans that her parents’ divorce has managed to divide them. But apparently, the problem is her father’s new partner.
In August 2023, Tish married Dominic Purcell, one of the protagonists of Prison Break. But there is a small detail: her daughter Noah would have dated the actor before she met her mother. For a long time, there were strong rumors that they had an informal love relationship on American portals.
Despite the commotion that these love triangle theories caused, no member of the family came out to deny them and to this day they continue not to speak a word to each other. Although Miley and Brandi were bridesmaids at her mother’s wedding, Noah did not attend and was shown on social networks shopping at Walmart while the ceremony was taking place.
