Miley Cyrus is revealing how her love of music helped her restore her fractured relationship together with her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus.
“This tune was written as a peace providing for somebody I had misplaced for a time however at all times liked,” Cyrus, 32, defined through Instagram on Thursday, September 18, referring to her new tune “Secrets and techniques,” which she cowrote with Lindsay Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac.
“In my expertise, forgiveness and freedom are one and the identical,” she added.
Miley had beforehand revealed the brand new tune was written for her dad whereas showing on the “Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky” podcast in June 2025.
“I wrote this tune about my dad, as a result of I wished him to inform me, although they have been secrets and techniques, although I didn’t actually wanna know, I wished to be the one he felt protected sufficient to inform me the issues that have been damning and damaging to the household,” she informed “Reclaiming” host Monica Lewinsky on the time. “However I wished him to suppose that, as a center youngster, I’m sufficiently old that I may take a few of that you recognize. And I at all times wished my household to really feel like I used to be the protected place, that I at all times had the white flag after they got here to speak to me.”
Miley and Billy Ray’s relationship allegedly started to fracture again in 2022, after Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus introduced their divorce. (Billy Ray and Tish share three youngsters, Miley, Noah and Braison. Billy Ray additionally adopted Tish’s daughter Brandi and her son Hint, whose organic father is Baxter Neal Helson, after their December 1993 marriage ceremony. Billy Ray additionally shares son Christopher with ex Kristin Luckey.)
After the previous couple’s cut up, Tish moved on with Jail Break actor Dominic Purcell. Miley attended her mom’s 2023 marriage ceremony to Purcell alongside her sister Brandi, however the pair’s youthful siblings, Noah and Braison, have been lacking.
“Miley and Billy Ray are on the outs,” a supply revealed to Us on the time. “Miley’s very shut together with her mother and is standing by her.”
Billy Ray’s personal October 2023 marriage to Firerose solely added to the divide. (The pair cut up shortly after, in August 2024.)
Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage
“The household dynamics haven’t been the identical for the reason that divorce, and now that Tish and Billy Ray are with different folks, there’s much more division amongst all of them,” a second insider informed Us.
The “Flowers” singer notably didn’t thank her father throughout her 2024 Grammys acceptance speech, both, and in February 2024 a supply informed Us Weekly Billy Ray had made makes an attempt to get in contact.
“He’s tried reaching out to Miley many instances and congratulated her on her Grammys,” the supply defined on the time. “The youngsters have chosen sides, however pals are hoping the rift doesn’t final without end.”
Regardless of the pair’s falling out, issues between the 2 have since improved.
“We cleaned all that up,” Miley revealed again in June. “That was a very massive a part of my 12 months this 12 months, was all of my household, placing all of these strains of communication again collectively.”
The singer went on to share that her mother and father’ personal relationships with different folks have now made it simpler for your complete household to come back collectively. (Billy Ray is at the moment courting actress Elizabeth Hurley. The pair went public with their romance in April 2025.)
(Picture by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage through Getty Photographs) Billy Ray Cyrus wished daughter Miley Cyrus a contented birthday after a 12 months of household drama. “Completely satisfied Birthday Mile !!! Hope it’s the perfect one ever !” Billy Ray, 63, wrote through Instagram on Saturday, November 23, Miley’s thirty second birthday. “(I do know I dropped the “y”. That’s what […]
“I feel timing is the whole lot. Now that my mother is so in love with my stepdad, who I utterly adore, and now that my dad, I see him discovering happiness, too — I can love them each as people as an alternative of as a parental pairing,” she defined on the time. “I’m being an grownup about it.”
She continued, “At first it’s onerous, as a result of the little child in you reacts earlier than the grownup in you possibly can go, ‘Sure, that’s your dad, however that’s simply one other individual that deserves to be in his bliss and to be comfortable.’ My youngster self has caught up.”
