Miley Cyrus opens up about father Billy Ray Cyrus’ struggle with sobriety and their complex bond

Miley Cyrus is getting candid astir her state superstar father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

In a caller interview with the New York Times, Miley spoke astatine magnitude astir Billy Ray, the existent authorities of their relationship, however she struggled erstwhile helium and her parent Tish Cyrus divorced, and more.

During 1 portion of the intimate interview, Miley's sobriety came up. 

She has been unfastened astir her prime to abstain from drugs and alcohol, but earlier this year, her celebrated brother, instrumentalist Trace Cyrus, who is sober himself, suggested that Billy Ray was possibly not making that aforesaid choice.

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Miley Cyrus says begetter Billy Ray Cyrus "has a harder clip enjoying being sober" than she does. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TikTok; Katherine Bomboy/NBC via Getty Images)

Now, Miley is sharing immoderate details astir what Billy Ray has been going through.

When asked if she's ever talked to her begetter astir her ain acquisition with sobriety, she said, "I deliberation helium has a harder clip enjoying being sober. I benignant of bask it. I deliberation my dada is idiosyncratic that’s like, ‘That would beryllium existent bully close now.’ He calls it a bully atrocious habit. Things that marque you consciousness good, but you cognize they’re bad."

She continued, "So I deliberation for him, I grew up successful a antithetic generation. My dada grew up betwixt the ’60s and the ’80s. It wasn’t mean for you to person your psychiatrist connected velocity dial. So I deliberation my dada conscionable truly didn’t person the support."

Miley said they don't "avoid" the subject, "but it’s not truly thing that’s our array talk."

Miley Cyrus has said that she and begetter Billy Ray Cyrus are nary longer estranged. (Getty Images)

"Me and my dada similar to speech astir euphony and movies," she explained. "It’s not thing that’s ever been our focus, but it astir apt should be. We astir apt should speech astir that astatine immoderate point."

In January, Billy Ray performed astatine the Liberty Ball, which was held the nighttime of President Donald Trump's inauguration. He experienced immoderate method difficulties, astatine 1 constituent asking the audience, "Check? Is anybody awake? Y'all privation maine to sing more, oregon you privation maine to conscionable get the hellhole of the stage?"

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Some viewers were truthful captious that helium issued a connection astir his show the adjacent day, sharing connected societal media, "I wouldn’t person missed the grant of playing this lawsuit whether my microphone, guitar and monitors worked oregon not. I was determination due to the fact that President Donald J. Trump invited me. I had a shot astatine the Liberty Ball past night, and I’ve learned done each these years erstwhile the shaper says, 'You’re on,' you spell entertain the folks adjacent if the instrumentality goes to hell."

Billy Ray Cyrus performs during the Liberty Inaugural Ball connected Jan. 20, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

He added, "I was determination for the people, and we had a blast. That’s called stone n' roll!!!"

Shortly aft that, Trace wrote successful an open letter to his father, "You’re not steadfast Dad & everyone is noticing it." 

At different constituent successful the letter, helium wrote, "I emotion you Dad. We haven’t talked successful a portion but I’m implicit a twelvemonth and fractional cleanable from alcohol. Guess what? I consciousness amazing. I don’t cognize what you’re struggling with precisely but I deliberation I person a beauteous bully thought & I’d emotion to assistance you if you would unfastened up and person the help."

In her caller interview, Miley said that she has "a batch of grace" for Billy Ray.

Miley Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus grew up successful vastly antithetic circumstances. (Getty Images)

"He grew up successful terrible poverty, not ever having indoor bathrooms," she shared. "He had rarely, if astatine all, gone to the dentist by the clip helium met my mom. No doctor’s appointments. He was raised successful a super-small municipality successful Kentucky. I spent immoderate of my beingness successful Nashville, but astir of it was successful L.A., successful a harmless neighborhood, and I conscionable can’t adjacent comparison our upbringings successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form. So I decidedly person a truly compassionate spot successful my bosom for my dad’s upbringing that I can’t rather understand."

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She was past asked if she believed her begetter had ever felt "competitive oregon eclipsed" by her monolithic fame – portion Billy Ray has enjoyed an undeniably palmy vocation successful state music, Miley became a kid prima with Disney's "Hannah Montana" and has been successful the spotlight for decades with a wildly palmy euphony vocation of her own.

Billy Ray Cyrus played the begetter of Miley Cyrus' quality connected "Hannah Montana." (Disney Channel/Ron Tom)

"That has added a level of complexity wrong my family, for sure," she admitted. "I deliberation it would beryllium hard for anybody with a imagination to spot idiosyncratic other achieving theirs successful a mode that you spot for yourself. But I bash deliberation emotion conquered all. He tin inactive find the pridefulness successful me. But it would beryllium delusional for immoderate of america to deliberation that that doesn’t adhd a level of complication to our already analyzable dynamic."

When asked if she felt "guilty," she said that therapy has helped her get escaped of "my guilt and shame."

"I had a hard clip accepting that I could suffer, due to the fact that of however blessed I am," Miley said. "I don’t deliberation that’s really played excessively overmuch of a portion betwixt maine and my dad, though, due to the fact that I person to person the religion that, similar immoderate dad, helium would privation this for me."

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She admitted precocious to having had "challenges" with Billy Ray implicit the years, but she told the New York Times that they're nary longer estranged.

Miley Cyrus admitted that her adjacent narration with parent Tish Cyrus played a relation successful the breakdown of her ain narration with begetter Billy Ray Cyrus aft their 2022 divorce. ( Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

"I deliberation timing is everything," she began. "As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents arsenic individuals alternatively of arsenic parents — due to the fact that my mom’s truly loved my dada for her full life, and I deliberation being joined to idiosyncratic successful the music industry and not being a portion of it is evidently truly hard. And truthful I deliberation I took connected immoderate of my mom’s wounded arsenic my ain due to the fact that it wounded her much than it wounded maine arsenic an adult, and truthful I owned a batch of her pain."

She continued, "But present that my ma is truthful successful emotion with my stepdad, who I wholly adore, and present that my dad, I spot him uncovering happiness, excessively — I tin emotion them some arsenic individuals alternatively of arsenic a parental pairing. I’m being an big astir it."

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Miley said that it was "hard" astatine first, "because the small kid successful you reacts earlier the big successful you tin go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s conscionable different idiosyncratic that deserves to beryllium successful his bliss and to beryllium happy.’"

She added, "My kid aforesaid has caught up."