Cyrus Family Values: Inside the Dysfunctional Showbiz World

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by Dana Kennedy

Miley Cyrus' family's hearts seem to be pretty heartbroken and broken.

A bombshell report by Us Weekly claims that the family's 56-year-old matriarch, Tish Cyrus, “stole” her new husband from her youngest daughter, actress and singer Noah, 24.

This is just the latest allegation of a rift in what was once one of Nashville's strongest and most admired showbiz dynasties.

The rift between Tish and country star Billy Ray Cyrus, 62, became apparent almost as soon as they officially divorced in 2022 after 30 years of marriage. The pair remarried last year, she to Prison Break actor Dominic Purcell, 54, and he to Australian singer Firerose (née Joanna Hodges), 34.

Neither Noah nor his brother Blazon, 29, attended Tish and Purcell's wedding at Miley's Malibu mansion. At the time, there were rumors of bad blood between everyone involved, with Miley, 30, and her sister Brandi, 36, sticking by Tisch, and Noah and Blazon allying with their father.

Now Us Weekly claims there may have been a surprising reason why Noah was absent from his mother's wedding.

“Noah is [seeing] “When Tish started pursuing Dominick,” a source claimed to the publication, adding that Tish was “aware” of the situation.

Sources even claimed that Miley had a security guard at her home on her mother's wedding day in case Noah tried to disrupt the event.

Sources told Page Six that Noah, Tish and Dominic's story began spreading across Hollywood earlier this month.

A source who has worked closely with Tisch for more than five years calls the claims about Purcell and Noah “trash gossip.”

“Tish is a great mother and a great human being as well,” a source told Page Six. “I hope I can be as good a mother to her as she is. I feel bad for her that people are gossiping about her.”

Page Six has reached out to Tish, Noah and Purcell for comment.

In public, Tish was very talkative about Purcell, frequently gushing about their whirlwind courtship and marriage on social media and on her podcast.

“So we go to lunch and we make out for three hours,” she said on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast during her first date with Purcell earlier this month. She added that the next day she was told “she loves you.”

“Loving you and being loved is so much more than I could have ever imagined,” Tish wrote in a Feb. 17 Instagram post in honor of Purcell's birthday.

Miley, Noah, and Brayson are from married couple Tish and Billy Ray, while Brandi and her brother Trace, 35, are Tish's children from a previous relationship and are adopted by Billy Ray. The country singer also has a son, Christopher Cody, 30, from a previous relationship.

Until recently, most of Cyrus' drama came from Miley and Noah. Miley overcame numerous scandals during her difficult transition from child star to full-fledged singer. Her most notable was her controversial exchange with Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs.

Noah spoke about feeling “stripped of his identity” while growing up in Miley's shadow, saying that when he was 10 and 11 years old, he was criticized online for his appearance and felt suicidal at times. Ta. She also became addicted to Xanax a few years ago, but she is reportedly now in recovery.

Noah announced his engagement to fashion designer Pincus in July 2023, after Miley appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast in 2020 and called Noah a sad “emo kid.” He accused Miley of being “disrespectful.”

But now their parents are also joining the fray. When Miley took the stage to accept the Grammy Record of the Year award for “Flowers” on February 10, she thanked Tish and her sister Brandi for accompanying her to the event. It is notable that he despised his father when he did not appreciate Billy Ray or his other siblings.

“I don't think anyone forgot, but they might have forgotten their underwear,” Miley said.

Us Weekly has since reported, citing sources, that Billie is trying to reach out to her famous daughter in an attempt to mend their once-close relationship.

“Miley and Billy Ray are out and about,” a source told the outlet. “Miley is very close to his mother and is there for his mother.”

Tish revealed a detailed and complicated timeline of her relationship with Purcell, saying she was obsessed with Purcell for years when he played Lincoln Burrows on Prison Break. She started following him on Instagram in 2016, and she said he would slide into her DMs to “call dad” and tell her she was “so cool.”

She also said she didn't see the messages until years later and claimed that Purcell's ex blocked her from Purcell's account.

In 2022, a few months after filing for divorce from Billy Ray, Tish noticed that the block had been lifted.

She said Purcell then DMed her and invited her to lunch to discuss potential ideas for her production company, Hopetown Entertainment.

The timeline of Billy Ray's relationship with his new wife Firerose, whom he met with Miley more than a decade ago when they both starred on the Disney sitcom “Hannah Montana,” and whom he married last October, is also unusual.

The country singer was taking a break with her dog outside the set when she spotted Firerose and offered to take her inside and show her around the set.

“I almost walked out of the audition,” Firerose told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show last year.

Tish also recently opened up about what she called a “complete mental breakdown” during the 2020 pandemic lockdown, when Billy Ray returned to Tennessee and remained in Los Angeles, where his mother died. .

“I had a complete mental breakdown for about a month, to be honest. It was the worst thing. To be honest… it wasn't good,” Tish said of “Call Her Daddy.” He told host Alex Cooper. “I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't stop crying. I literally weighed 103 pounds…I don't have a mother, I don't have a husband. [who’s] He was my husband for 30 years. ”

She also hinted that there was “all forms of disrespect” during her marriage to Billy Ray.

“Rudeness comes in so many different forms. [didn’t] I knew that until I started a new relationship. [where] There was so much respect. How much disrespect there was in my previous marriage,” Tish continued. “Honestly, for both of us.”

Billy Ray first filed for divorce in 2010, but later withdrew the application. Tisch did the same in 2013.

He said it was probably a mistake that the rural family with roots in Kentucky and Tennessee moved to LA in 2005, when Miley and Billy Ray, then nearly 13 years old, moved to L.A. to co-star in Hannah Montana. He says it was.

“That show destroyed my family,” he told GQ in 2011. And I sat there and said, “Yeah, you know what?” Some gave their all. ” That is my motto, what do you think? I have to eat that. I managed to be okay. While everyone else went to the bank, I managed to do my best. It's all sad. ”