Billy Ray Cyrus‘s ex-wife, Firerose, admits that her marriage to the singer was a disaster.
The couple, who parted ways back in May 2024, had a short-lived marriage that ended in a tumultuous divorce.
She told The Sun: “I wish that every person who is being ensnared by a narcissist could save themselves, because I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, being in a relationship with Billy was like going through some kind of war.”
“I could just look at him in a way he would perceive to be wrong and it would trigger his rage, he would be screaming vile insults and verbally abusing me and calling me the most horrible things I’ve ever heard.”
Billy Ray filed for divorce in May 2024 and later reported his credit cards being misused.
His lawyers released a statement at the time: “This has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of. Let alone the fact I’m right in the center and basically the target of the scheme.”
This comes as Billy Ray Cyrus reflected on his decades-long friendship with Dolly Parton one month after her death, revealing in a new interview that he’s begun thinking of time itself as divided into a before-and-after, “A.D.,” or “After Dolly.”
Parton died on August 25, which is also Cyrus’s birthday, turning what should have been a celebration into a day of collective mourning.
“Dolly is just such a light in the world,” Cyrus said. “It’s a celebration, and that’s what today is… Her light still shines.”
Cyrus recalled his history with Parton fondly, describing meeting her during the height of Achy Breaky Heart mania in the early 1990s, when he went from “obscurity and living in my car to opening for Dolly” almost overnight.
“It was right in the middle of the craziest point of my life,” he said. “I do think Dolly shines so beautiful in it.”
He described Parton’s sense of humour as one of the qualities he remembers most vividly, and offered a characteristically grand description of her impact.
“Like Mother Theresa meets Elvis [Presley] meets Marilyn Monroe… a star of a magnitude beyond this planet.”
