Billy Ray Cyrus’ ex-wife Firerose has been sharing details since the day she found out their marriage was truly over.
The Australian singer, 34, and the country music star, 63, officially finalized their divorce in August, three months after Billy Ray first filed, citing “irreconcilable differences.”
And Firerose claims she got the bad news because she was home alone, waiting for breast surgery.
She says Billy Ray’s May 23 divorce filing came just one day before she underwent the first of two planned surgeries for a preventive mastectomy.
Firerose decided to undergo the procedure after discovering that she has the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increases a person’s chance of developing cancer.
“We went to sleep together and when I woke up, he wasn’t there,” she tells this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine.
‘It wasn’t abnormal for him to exclude me and give me the silent treatment, but it was very unusual for him to leave for a whole day. He didn’t come home that night.
She continued: “I was alone on the farm, with no security lights on. “I was terrified and bewildered as he wasn’t answering my calls or texts and I knew he had to be in the hospital the next day.”
Billy Ray Cyrus’ ex-wife Firerose has been sharing details since the day she found out their marriage was truly over. Photographed in Stellar Magazine
Firerose claimed she postponed the surgery and left Billy Ray’s farm the next day and has not spoken to her now ex-husband since. She underwent mastectomy surgery last month.
During their increasingly contentious divorce, Billy Ray appeared to cast doubt on the veracity of this claim by citing his medical records.
Elsewhere in the interview, the singer admitted she wishes she had ‘run away’ from the star when she first met her while discussing her tumultuous marriage.
During their increasingly bitter and public breakup, they accused each other of verbal and emotional abuse, and Firerose emerged from the divorce without receiving $0.
He said he met Billy Ray in 2010, while leaving an audition on the Hollywood lot where Hannah Montana was filmed, and that he talked to him when he patted his dog.
The Australian singer, 34, and the country music star, 63, officially finalized their divorce in August, three months after Billy Ray first filed, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Both in the photo
Firerose, who at the time was a 22-year-old “starving artist,” insisted she didn’t recognize Billy Ray, who immediately offered to introduce her to everyone on set.
Billy Ray was married to his wife Tish at the time and although nothing happened between the couple until more than a decade later, Firerose said they stayed in touch.
She claimed that Billy Ray often talked about them becoming “soulmates”, even though she was “not interested at all”.
‘I couldn’t have seen 10 years into the future. “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,” he admitted.
Firerose said they lost touch during the Covid-19 pandemic before Billy Ray reached out and rekindled their friendship, before a romance eventually blossomed.
Billy Ray’s marriage to Firerose, which came four months after Tish filed for divorce, is believed to have strained his relationship with his daughter Miley (Billy, Tish and Miley are pictured).
“He said strange things like, ‘We’re going to have this epic love story beyond anything you can imagine.’ We’re going to have twins and we’re going to call them Melody and Harmony,” she alleged.
She said he promised to take her horseback riding around his Nashville farm and to a special beach in California, but she claimed none of that happened.
Firerose said she isolated herself from her family and friends during their romantic relationship, but said she believed Billy Ray was being “protective” of her.
She recalls: “Suddenly, instead of being my usual lively, outgoing self, I became very introverted unless we were working or together in public, where I would often try to be overly positive because I was afraid someone would see it.” How devastatingly withdrawn I had become.
The couple announced their engagement in August 2022 and exchanged vows at their farm in October 2023. Firerose claimed she only had one friend in her bridal party: her stylist.
She claimed she only wanted to love and trust Billy Ray, but their marriage collapsed after seven months and a divorce was granted due to “irreconcilable differences.”
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Billy Ray’s representatives for comment.
Firerose claims she got the bad news because she was home alone, waiting for breast surgery.
The two accused each other of verbal and emotional abuse during their public and bitter breakup, and their divorce was finally settled on August 2 of this year.
Court documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com showed Firerose walked away from the divorce without receiving $0, but a source said he was okay with the deal.
For the most part, the divorce settlement made each party walk away from the brief marriage with what they brought to the table in the first place.
However, the terms of the agreement showed that Billy Ray agreed to assign any claims he has to credits or royalties on songs the couple wrote or released together before and during their union.
“She didn’t settle for anything, just to break up with him and get away from the situation,” the source told DailyMail.com exclusively.
However, Billy Ray accused Firerose of marrying him just to get the last name Cyrus, and said she changed her name from Hodges, her first husband’s last name, just a couple of weeks before their divorce.
“We went to sleep together and when I woke up, he wasn’t there,” she tells this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine. ‘It wasn’t abnormal for him to exclude me and give me the silent treatment, but it was very unusual for him to leave for a whole day. He didn’t come home that night.
“I feel very relieved,” Billy Ray said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
“It’s a shame it developed this way,” he added. ‘Love is blind, that’s for sure.’
In July, DailyMail.com revealed shocking audio in which Billy Ray could be heard belittling and mocking the Australian singer.
Posting on Instagram a day after his rant and text messages were exposed, Billy Ray made no attempt to deny the claims, but apparently doubled down.
He said, ‘Hell yeah, I was at my wits’ end.’ As the days went by, I began to realize that something was wrong.’
Billy Ray’s marriage to Firerose, which came just four months after Tish filed for divorce, is believed to have strained his relationship with his daughter Miley, 31.
Billy Ray was still married to Tish when he met Firerose in 2010, but nothing happened until more than a decade later, when he asked her to duet with him on a cover of Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn.
He was married to Tish for 30 years and they share three children: Miley, Braison, 30, and Noah, 24.
Billy Ray also has a son from a previous relationship and adopted Tish’s two oldest children, Brandi, 37, and Trace, 35, when they married.
Read more in this week’s issue of Stellar Magazine
