Firerose is not holding back after her messy breakup with Billy Ray Cyrus.
In an interview with Stellar magazine published on Saturday, the singer opened up a lot about the beginning and end of her relationship with the country music artist. According to Firerose, the pair first met when his dog came up to her at the studio lot where Hannah Montana was filmed in 2010. She was 22 years old while Billy Ray was 48 — and still married to Tish Cyrus — at the time. The musician recalled he said to her:
“I’ll just introduce you to everyone else and we can hang out for the rest of the day. My gut instinct, honestly, was: What does this guy want? I probably should have had way better boundaries.”
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Following that first meeting, Firerose said they continued to hang out, with him calling her his soulmate. Whoa, what? Even while he was still with Tish? If that is the case, talk about a massive red flag for a married man to say that to another woman who is not his wife! However, the 36-year-old artist insisted she was “by no means interested” in a relationship with Billy Ray, but she “couldn’t have seen 10 years into the future.”
They eventually lost touch for several years but reunited during the pandemic to collaborate on a song. It wasn’t long after that the sparks started to fly and they got together. However, their four-year romance and seven-month relationship was tumultuous as both of them claimed during their divorce it was marked by abuse. These days, now knowing what she knows, Firerose wishes she’d “run” far away when they met over a decade ago:
“When I think about what I just went through, I would have told my 22-year-old self to run in the opposite direction and never look back.”
Oof. However, you cannot change the past. As we mentioned, the duo eventually got together. Firerose claimed the Achy Breaky Heart singer love-bombed her and made promises he did not keep, recalling:
“He’d say bizarre things like, ‘We’re going to have this epic love story beyond anything you can imagine. We’re going to have twins, and call them Melody and Harmony.’”
Worse than that? Billy Ray allegedly isolated her from her friends and family. Firerose said it started when they got married in October 2023, and she only had one guest there:
“I was allowed to have her over because she was doing my hair. It was quite hurtful, in retrospect, and it breaks my heart. How did I not think that that was so weird and unacceptable? I justified it like, well, that’s my life now. I accepted his lunacy as reality.”
This continued even after their nuptials. Firerose alleged:
“All of a sudden, instead of being my normal lively, outgoing self, I became very introverted unless we were working or together in public, where I’d often try to be overly positive as I was scared to let anyone see how devastatingly withdrawn I’d become. My family and friends all had the same experience: me withdrawing and pushing them away. The way I experienced it was: ‘Oh, he’s just really protective.’”
To keep her at home and away from loved ones, Firerose claimed he said things like:
“Well, you can’t live that way anymore. You’re a Cyrus now. You can’t be going to church. You can’t be going to public places where people could follow you home. You’re going to be murdered.’”
Whoa!!
She even claimed Billy Ray “blamed” her for things that went “wrong in his life”:
“It sounds crazy, but that’s what was happening. By the point where I realised it was too late, what was even worse was he blamed me somehow for everything that had previously gone wrong in his life. For someone who’s had so many good things happen to him, and so much luck and so many blessings, to be that empty is really sad. And I thought, I’m just going to keep loving him, pouring my heart and soul into this relationship.”
However, their relationship came to an abrupt end this year. Firerose told the outlet they went to bed together and he was gone by the time she woke up:
“We went to bed together, and when I woke up, he wasn’t there. It wasn’t abnormal for him to shut me out and give me the silent treatment, but it was very unusual for him to leave for a whole day. He didn’t come home that night. I was alone on the farm by myself, with no security lights on. I was terrified and baffled, as he wasn’t answering my calls or texts and he knew I had to be at the hospital the next day.”
Billy Ray ended up filing for divorce on May 23 — less than 24 hours before she was scheduled to get a double mastectomy. They finalized it in August, with her receiving nothing! He only agreed to give her any song credits or royalties that they wrote or published together during their relationship. Damn. At this time, the former couple are not on speaking terms. And despite the allegations they hurled at each other during the divorce, the Australian native insisted she wanted things to work out:
“All I ever tried to do was love and trust this person, which was very ignorant of me. I really wanted to believe that he was the good version of the man I’d fallen in love with.”
Billy Ray has not reacted to the interview… yet. Considering he has clapped back at many of her claims in the past, we would not be surprised if he says something soon! Thoughts, Perezcious readers? Let us know in the comments!
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