Miley Cyrus has shared her thoughts on her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus’ new relationship, and reflecting on how their own bond has evolved via Yahoo.
In a new interview with The New York Times published Saturday, the Grammy winner opened up about Billy Ray’s romance with actress Elizabeth Hurley, as well as her mom Tish Cyrus’ marriage to actor Dominic Purcell.
“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 told the outlet.
“I’m being an adult about it.”
She continued, “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.’ My child self has caught up.”
Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus tied the knot in 1993 and divorced in 2022 after nearly 30 years of marriage. They share three children — Miley, Braison, and Noah — and Billy Ray also adopted Tish’s two older children, Brandi and Trace.
Billy Ray went public with his relationship with Hurley on Easter Sunday. Their debut as a couple came just months after he finalized his divorce from his second wife, Firerose, in August 2024, according to People.
In her New York Times interview, Miley also addressed longstanding speculation about her relationship with her father. When asked if they were estranged, she simply replied, “No.”
“I think timing is everything,” she explained. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents as individuals instead of as parents — because my mom 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. 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.”
