Practically 4 years after submitting for divorce from Billy Ray Cyrus, Tish Cyrus is opening up the inner struggles she confronted throughout their break up.
The “Sorry We’re Cyrus” host spoke candidly in regards to the robust time in her life on the Jan. 14 episode of “The Squeeze” podcast. “Something that’s occurred I’m form of like, ‘Properly that’s life, simply hold it shifting,’” Tish shared. “I’d been on this relationship since I used to be 23 or 24 so, once more, I saved it shifting.”
Tish, 58, revealed that the emotional toll of her marriage ending got here on the heels of one other devastating loss: her mom, Loretta Jean Palmer Finley, who handed away simply two years earlier than the divorce. “Two of essentially the most tragic issues in my life that occurred—I didn’t course of and even cease to essentially take into consideration,” she admitted.
Throughout this time, Tish turned to hashish to deal with her grief over her mom and her relationship. “I’ve been very open that I used to be a serious weed smoker. For that, as a result of I’ve at all times had just a little bit of tension, that was virtually like drugs for me,” she stated. She acknowledged that she was “self-medicating in some methods” and didn’t even notice it on the time.
When Tish give up smoking hashish in 2024, the suppressed feelings she’d been avoiding hit her abruptly. “I do suppose it form of numbed all that ache after which I ended smoking and swiftly every week later, I’m simply in full-on anxiousness to the purpose of not functioning,” she recalled. “It was the roughest factor I’d ever gone by.”
Over a yr later, Tish says she’s studying to handle her anxiousness. “I’m so significantly better,” she emphasised. “Like, I used to be not functioning for that yr, I used to be simply making an attempt to outlive. Now, I’m utterly on the opposite facet of that. I’m studying to regulate it.”
Tish filed for divorce from Billy Ray, 64, in April 2022 after 29 years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable variations” in courtroom paperwork. She had not lived with the nation singer since February 2020.
Via time and remedy, she lastly appears like she’s on the street to therapeutic. “Once I began remedy, and I actually began speaking about my life and shifting out right here and my children within the enterprise and, what my life had been, they have been like, ‘Wow,’” she stated.
Now, Tish has discovered love along with her new husband, Dominic Purcell, whom she married in August 2023. “It was so secure,” she shared. “There was simply no drama. I believe it gave me this place to face nonetheless and, like, really feel all these emotions.”
