Miley Cyrus is opening up about the place her relationship stands together with her mother and father, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus.
The “Flowers” singer made an look on the most recent season of David Letterman’s Netflix present, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” and addressed every little thing from the “narcissism” she inherited from her dad to her household’s rumored estrangement.
The previous “Hannah Montana” star informed Letterman about her connection together with her father, after Letterman requested if she ever felt that Billy Ray was her “hero.”
“I mean, honestly, my mom is my hero,” Cyrus mentioned. “My father… I’m grateful for ― first, his genes. My dad has great hair, and I got that. But also he has a relationship and a foot on the ground to the real, and to nature, and he always did, even when he was super famous.”
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“I’m grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me,” Cyrus mentioned of her “Achy Breaky Heart” father, who additionally co-starred on her Disney present. “He’s almost given me this map. And there’s a map of what to do and what not to do, and he’s guided me on both.”
Cyrus mentioned that she has “a lot of love” for her dad, however informed Letterman she “also inherited the narcissism from my father,” and that she actually credit her mom with elevating her.
She added that her mother and father “can’t be weighed on the same scale” when it comes to the roles they performed in her upbringing.
“My dad, as a creative and as an artist in the way that his brain works, has always made me feel safer in my own mind, because we’re very similar in some of our ideas,” she informed Letterman.
“I think a lot of his perspective on reality and on life, I’ve inherited from him, more so than the way that I was raised,” she mentioned. “Which, really, my mom raised me.”
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Letterman informed Cyrus that it appeared like “there’s not estrangement here with your father, it’s just, kinda, the way things are played?”
“Yeah,” Cyrus mentioned, sidestepping the query. “I think, what is so beautiful is that my parents ― they served their children, and I know this. My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”
It was rumored that Cyrus and her father have been estranged after varied members of the well-known household appeared to take sides following Tish and Billy Ray’s divorce in 2022.
Final 12 months, Cyrus and two of her siblings attended Tish’s wedding ceremony to “Prison Break” star Dominic Purcell. Cyrus’ sister Noah, 24, didn’t attend, as she’d reportedly dated the 54-year-old actor earlier than he married her mom.
Cyrus additionally left her father out of her acceptance speech when she took house her first Grammy earlier this 12 months, although she thanked her mother, her sister Brandi and her boyfriend, Maxx Morando.
“All the people that we love. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anyone,” Cyrus mentioned on the time. “But I might have forgotten underwear ― bye!”
