Miley Cyrus is sharing some insight into her relationship with her parents.
Just recently, the 32-year-old “End of the World” singer reunited with her dad Billy Ray Cyrus more than a year after rumors first started that there was a rift within the family.
In a new interview, Miley confirmed that she and Billy Ray, 63, are no longer estranged and revealed that their rift was caused after he split from her mom Tish Cyrus.
Keep reading to find out more…“I think timing is everything,” Miley told The New York Times. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents as individuals instead of as parents—because my mom’s really loved my dad for her whole life, and I think being married to someone in the music industry and not being a part of it is obviously really hard.”
She added, “And so I think I took on some of my mom’s hurt as my own because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult, and so I owned a lot of her pain.”
Tish, 58, filed for divorce from Billy Ray in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage. She then went on to marry Prison Break alum Dominic Purcell in 2023 and Billy Ray revealed this past April that he’s dating Elizabeth Hurley.
Miley went on to say that seeing her parents both happily in relationships has helped her work through her feelings and move forward on the road to healing.
“Now that my mom is so in love with my stepdad, who I completely adore, and now that my dad, I see him finding happiness, too—I can love them both as individuals instead of as a parental pairing,” Miley explained. “I’m being an adult about it.”
However, the Grammy winner did admit that changing her mindset wasn’t easy.
“At first it’s hard, because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy,’” Miley said. “My child self has caught up.”
In honor of Mother’s Day earlier this month, Billy Ray shared a post praising Tish.
