Firerose Got Real About Her Marriage To Billy Ray Cyrus And Says His Behavior Was “Lunacy”
“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.”
Firerose is speaking out when it comes to her brief marriage to Billy Ray Cyrus.
In case you missed it, the couple called it quits this past June after roughly seven months of marriage, with Billy Ray reportedly filing for divorce from the singer.
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Firerose would go on to accuse Billy Ray of “extreme verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse,” while he alleged that she tried to “isolate” him from the Cyrus clan altogether.
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Now, Firerose has opened up more about their relationship in an interview with Stellar, and it sounds like she wishes she never got married to him in the first place.
She claims that they first met on the set of Hannah Montana, when Billy Ray was 48 (he’s now 63) and she was 22 years old — when he was still married to ex-wife Tish Cyrus. “My gut instinct, honestly, was: What does this guy want?” she said. “I probably should have had way better boundaries.”
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“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.”
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She also revealed that her and Billy eventually came together during the COVID-19 pandemic, after collaborating on music together. “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,'” she claimed.
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Firerose went on to allege that Billy Ray essentially isolated her from friends and family, allowing her to have just one guest at their wedding in October of 2023: “I was allowed to have her over because she was doing my hair. It was quite hurtful, in retrospect, and it breaks my heart,”
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“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.”
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“All of a sudden, instead of being my normal lively, outgoing self, I became very introverted unless we were working or together in public,” she added, “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.’”
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Firerose also claimed that Billy Ray would say things to her such as, “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.’”
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“It sounds crazy, but that’s what was happening,” she said. “By the point where I realized it was too late, what was even worse was he blamed me somehow for everything that had previously gone wrong in his life.”
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“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.”
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Firerose also said that her reason for speaking out is to remind people that her alleged experience is “much more common, unfortunately, than anyone would like to think.”
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“I had to learn that it was something outside of me, something that I couldn’t fix,” she said. “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.”
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