Until now, many would call the biggest scandal in Miley Cyrus’ life when she simultaneously twerked upon a giant foam finger while smoking a joint at the 2013 MTV VMAs.
Yet in recent days the formerly squeaky clean Disney star, turned showboating wild child, turned respected Grammy-winning artist, has found herself at the centre of an even more debaucherous affair.
Now the Wrecking Ball singer’s entire family have been thrust into the spotlight (not just her Achy Breaky Heart hitmaker father Billy Ray Cyrus) as they deal with the very public fallout of a family love triangle.
Centre stage this time is Miley’s mother Tish Cyrus, 56, who has been accused of ‘stealing’ her new husband Dominic Purcell, 54, following her divorce from Billy Ray.
The crux of the issue comes from who she’s said to have turned Dominic away from, none other than her estranged daughter and Miley’s younger sister, 24-year-old Noah Cyrus.
A bombshell Us Weekly report published on Tuesday claims Tish and Dominic’s love story is more convoluted than an episode of Hannah Montana, with Dominic first dating his new wife’s young daughter before moving onto her mother.
In a further twist to the shock claims, Tish has claimed that her husband first reached out to her on Instagram in 2016 – years before he apparently dated Noah – making it clear that he had always had Tish in his sights as the end goal.
Now MailOnline takes a look at who’s sparring with who in the tangled web of Cyrus fallouts and how family friend Dolly Parton could be the key to getting out of the mess.
MailOnline takes a look at who’s sparring with who in the tangled web of Cyrus feuds (shown by the arrows above) and how family friend Dolly Parton could get them out of the mess
The Cyrus family have been ripped apart by infighting as matriarch Tish Cyrus feuds with daughter Noah while Miley lashes out at dad Billy Ray (L-R in 2017 Tish, Noah, Miley, Billy Ray)
Tish vs Noah
Rumours of a feud between Cyrus matriarch Tish and her daughter Noah first began to swirl last August when family members were noticeably absent from Trish’s wedding to Prison Break star Dominic.
Tish shares Brandi, 36, and Trace, 35, with first husband Baxter Neal Helson and Miley, 30, Braison, 29, and Noah, 24, with second husband Billy Ray.
Yet not all of them were there to support her on her big day, with Noah and Braison skipping the ceremony in Malibu in favour of a trip to a local Walmart.
At the time, the rift was downplayed, with an insider telling ET Online ‘there is no family drama between Tish, Noah and Braison’ and insisting their no-show was down to logistical issues.
A separate source informed Us Weekly, ‘It’s no secret neither of them approves of Dominic, and that’s created tension with their mom.’
‘[Noah has] always been close with Billy Ray… It’s caused a rift between her and Miley.’
It was hard to believe that something wasn’t amiss as Noah claimed her brother had traveled to Los Angeles to visit her, but he couldn’t make it down the road to see Tish.
‘My brother flew here to see me!!’ she posted in a photo of him checking out the Vivian’s Cafe menu.
Noah was also notably wearing a T-shirt featuring a photo of her father Billy Ray, who had divorced Tish two years prior.
Tish, 56, is accused of ‘stealing’ husband Dominic Purcell from her estranged daughter, Noah, 24, amid a family feud (Noah and Tish seen in 2020 in LA)
The ceremony was held at Miley’s lavish Malibu mansion, and the insider claimed that the Grammy winner had guards outside in case Noah did attempt to show up
Noah also unfollowed her mother on Instagram following the divorce, according to RadarOnline. However, she continued following her father on the platform.
Shortly after the wedding Trace and Tish shared throwback family photos which did not include Noah and Braison.
In the black-and-white snap, Tish posed with a young Miley, Trace, and Brandi.
Trace posted an old family snap via Instagram Stories, and the photo was re-shared by Tish, who added red heart emojis to it.
A year later the reason behind Tish and Noah’s fallout seemingly emerged as it claimed Tish had ‘stolen’ Dominic from her daughter.
An insider claimed to Us Weekly that, ‘Noah was [seeing] Dominic when Tish started pursuing him,’ which Tish ‘was aware’ of when she began to contact the star.
‘The turmoil between Noah and Tish goes far beyond [what people think]. Noah is very distraught over Tish stealing Dominic from her.’
They added that Noah had not been invited to the wedding.
The ceremony was held at Miley’s lavish Malibu mansion, and the insider claimed that the Grammy winner had guards outside in case Noah did attempt to show up.
Earlier this month, Tish appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast and opened up about her relationship with Dominic, including their first date.
She explained that he had initially reached out to her in 2016 on Instagram – which she missed.
‘I had followed him on Instagram and he DMed me and just said, “Hey Tish, just wanted to [say], I think you’re super cool and… you’re doing such a great job with your family”… I didn’t see it for a year.’
However, later in 2017, Tish’s daughter, Brandi, noticed that Dominic had blocked her account.
‘His ex had seen he hit me up and blocked me from his Instagram. I almost peed my pants because I was like…”Why am I blocked?” He doesn’t even know I exist, and I’m blocked. We were laughing so hard.’
Years later in 2022, following her split from Billy Ray, Tish reached out to Dominic and he quickly responded back. The pair soon went on a date and the next day, told each other ‘I love you’.
Noah kept busy on the big day with her brother, Braison. She took to Instagram with moments from their day, including an excursion to Walmart while sporting a Billy Ray Cyrus shirt
In a further twist to the shock claims, Tish has claimed that her husband first reached out to her on Instagram in 2016 – years before he apparently dated Noah
Noah vs Miley
Rumblings of tension between the siblings first emerged in 2020 when Noah admitted it had been ‘unbearable’ growing up in the ‘shadow’ of her elder sister.
Noah was discussing her song Young & Sad in an Instagram Live session when she dissected a lyric, where she compares her sister to, ‘sunshine, bringing good light wherever she’ll go,’ while she, ‘was born to rain clouds, blessed in her shadows.’
‘Being born in the family I was in, everyone gave me such a hard time for having a hard time being Miley’s little sister,’ she told People while discussing the song after its release.
‘I always felt like I was that person that no one gave a s**t about due to what people said to me online.
‘That’s what everybody always said to me – that no matter what, I was going to be in that shadow. It was absolutely unbearable.
‘That was something I heard my whole life, every single day, my whole life. It was either that or that I wasn’t enough in some way, whether it was the way I look or the way I am.
‘I feel like I don’t even breathe right sometimes. It’s been really tough on me.’
Miley appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2020 to promote her seventh album Plastic Hearts at the time, and was asked about her relationship with younger sister Noah (Miley and Noah pictured when they were children)
Noah’s single was released the same year their parents separated.
Us Weekly’s insider noted that Noah has ‘always been close with Billy Ray’ which ultimately ’caused a rift between her and Miley’, who was closer with Tish.
When Tish remarried, Miley offered up her Malibu mansion for the ceremony and is said to have shelled out on security to turn away Noah if she attempted to come in.
Three years later, Noah publicly hit out at Miley after watching an old interview on TikTok.
Miley appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast in 2020 to promote her seventh album Plastic Hearts at the time, and was asked what it must have been like for Noah growing up in her older sister’s spotlight.
Miley claimed: ‘You can go one way or the other, right? You can either become my little sister who kind of wants it. And you know she’s got a record out called The End Of Everything that I love.
‘It’s the most depressing ep you’ll ever listen too, she’s 20-years-old. She’s emo, she’s like an emo kid.
‘She has a song where she says “my sister’s like sunshine and it’ll follow her where ever she goes, but I’m more like a raincloud, you know she’s really got this idea of me.” I worry about her. ‘
After the video of Miley’s interview resurfaced on Noah’s social media, Noah furiously hit out at her older sister by commenting: ‘The disrespect in this video…’
Miley once again addressed her difficult family dynamics in a 2021 interview with British Vogue, explaining: ‘I have a very intimate and close relationship with my family, but like all families, we’re also complex.
‘We embrace the fact that each of us are so different from one another. Me and my siblings, we’re a lot alike, but we also have big differences.’
She insisted at the time, however, ‘We accept that and don’t judge each other, and our family makes unconditional love a priority.’
An insider noted that Noah has ‘always been close with Billy Ray’ which ultimately ’caused a rift between her and Miley’, who was closer with Tish (Miley and Noah pictured in 2011)
Miley vs Billy Ray
While Noah has been supporting her father, Miley has been at loggerheads with Billy Ray for years.
The drama started more than a decade ago, with the pair first becoming estranged during the filming of their show Hannah Montana in 2010.
‘The damn show destroyed my family,’ Billy Ray confessed in a 2011 GQ interview, admitting he was no longer on regular speaking terms with Miley – then 18 – and adding, ‘It’s all sad.’
He went on to confess: I’d take it back in a second. For my family to be here and just everybody to be OK, safe and sound and happy and normal would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah!’
He also admitted at the time that he was no longer on speaking terms with Miley.
Referencing their estrangement, he continued: ‘It seems at this point there’s not a lot that I can say she doesn’t already know and of course I’ve sent her the texts of “I’m here if you need me”, “Always still love you,” those kind of things.’
He also expressed this concerns that Miley – who was in her wild child era which saw her twerk and smoke a joint on stage – wasn’t being cared for properly.
Billy Ray claimed her ‘handlers are perhaps more interested in handling Miley’s money than her safety and her career’, adding that he was ‘scared’ for his daughter.
He continued: ‘She’s got a lot of people around her that’s putting her in a great deal of danger.’
While Noah has been supporting her father, Miley has been at loggerheads with Billy Ray for years (pictured performing at Glastonbury in 2019)
The drama started more than a decade ago, with the pair first becoming estranged during the filming of their show Hannah Montana in 2010 (pictured on set in 2009)
But a few months later, he told People that he was working hard to ‘mend his family.’
‘My family is the most important thing I have, and we are working together to make sure our future is stronger and healthier,’ he added.
Over the years, Billy and Miley managed to heal the family rift, but it all came crashing down again when he publicly announced his split from Miley’s mother in April 2022 after nearly 29 years of marriage.
By September it was claimed the singer was ‘no longer on speaking terms’ with her father, with a source telling The Sun: ‘Miley is all about peace but she didn’t agree with some things that her father has done.
‘It has really escalated and they are not on good terms.
‘There were words exchanged over what happened towards the end of Billy and Tish’s marriage,’ the insider maintained, and since then ‘they clearly see things very differently.’
Miley then notably left her father out of her Grammys acceptance speech earlier this month.
An insider told Page Six shortly after the ceremony that Billy had ‘tried reaching out to Miley many times’ and also ‘congratulated her’ on the Grammy wins.
‘Miley and Billy Ray are on the outs,’ they told the outlet. ‘Miley’s very close with her mom and is standing by her.’
As for the rest of their six children, the insider said that all of ‘kids have chosen sides’ but ‘friends are hoping the rift doesn’t last forever.’
It’s also telling that Miley served as the maid of honor for her mother as she tied the knot to the Prison Break star, but did not appear to attend her father’s nuptials.
In October, Bill Ray officially tied the knot with Australian singer Firerose, who is 27 years his junior. during an ‘ethereal celebration of love’ and shared images taken on the special day.
The performer said ‘I do’ to the songstress, 34, just two months after his ex-wife and Miley’s mum, Tish, married Dominic in August.
Miley notably left her father out of her Grammys acceptance speech earlier this month. An insider told Page Six shortly after the ceremony that Billy ‘congratulated her’ on the win
In October, Bill Ray officially tied the knot with Australian singer, Firerose, during an ‘ethereal celebration of love’ and shared images taken on the special day
Billy Ray vs Tish
Tish and Billy Ray were married for three tumultuous decades before she filed for divorce in April 2022 citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
The pair first crossed paths at a club in Tennessee in 1991, while he was in the midst of trying to break into the music industry.
Billy Ray previously admitted to People that he was homeless and living out of his car at the time, adding, ‘It wasn’t pretty.’
As for Tish, she was a Utah State University graduate and a young single mother to two kids.
She had welcomed her daughter Brandi in 1986 and her son Trace in 1989 with her first husband, Baxter Neal Helson.
Both she and Billy Ray had recently gone through divorces when they met – Billy Ray split from his aspiring musician wife Cindy Smith in 1991, and Tish left her drummer husband that same year.
They married 1993 and had ups and downs throughout the relationship, with Billy Ray first filing for divorce 2010.
At the time, they said in a joint statement, ‘As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family.
‘We are trying to work through some personal matters. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers.’
Soon after, rumors erupted that the reason they had split was because Tish had been involved in a whirlwind affair with Poison singer Bret Michaels, who had teamed up with Miley to release a song together that same year.
‘It was a professional relationship that turned into something more,’ a source told Us Weekly at the time. ‘Billy Ray was completely unaware of what was going on.’
Bret was quick to deny the allegations, however, stating on Fox & Friends, ‘The answer is no,’ when asked if he had been involved with Tish.
‘I’ve been friends with her family forever,’ he continued. ‘It started out with me and Miley simply working on a song together.
‘Her mom, Tish, likes Every Rose Has Its Thorn, and the first concert Miley ever saw was Poison so they wanted to remake it for the new record.’
The couple then reconciled before Tish filed for divorce in 2013 – before that was also dropped.
Addressing their eventual split in a joint statement, the pair shared: ‘It is after 30 years, five amazing children and a lifetime of memories, we have decided to go our separate ways – not with sadness, but with love in our hearts, their joint statement reads.
Tish and Billy Ray were married for three tumultuous decades before she filed for divorce in April 2022 citing ‘irreconcilable differences’ (pictured 2008)
While things initially seemed amicable between the pair, tensions soon began to show when Tish opened up about the breakdown of their marriage (pictured with Miley in 2015)
‘We have grown up together, raised a family we can be so proud of, and it is now time to create our own paths.’
‘We will always be family and look forward to a continued and loving shared experience as friends and parents.
‘We have not come to this decision lightly or quickly but with so much going on in the world, we wanted to provide some clarity and closure, so we can remain focused on what is important. With Love and Hope… Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus.’
While things initially seemed amicable between the pair, tensions soon began to show when Tish opened up about the breakdown of their marriage.
She revealed: ‘I will never put up with disrespect. I didn’t even know until I had a new relationship that there was so much respect, how much disrespect there was in my marriage before, on both our parts.’
Tish also revealed she had a ‘complete psychological breakdown’ in the wake of her split from Billy Ray.
‘It was so crazy, my two biggest fears in life were being alone and my mom passing away. And I had one month of a complete psychological breakdown,’ she recalled.
‘It was the worst thing, it was not good… Kind of pushed the mom thing under the rug, and then the divorce thing came.
‘I could not eat, I could not sleep, I could not stop crying. I don’t have my mom, and then I don’t have my husband that has been my husband for 30 years. Like I’m scared.’
In addition, Billy Ray spoke about his and Tish’s split to People in November 2022. He said, ‘Everyone knew that that relationship was over a long time ago.
‘Everybody’s turning the page. It’s been a lot, but everyone knew that it was time for a change.’
Dolly Parton the peacekeeper
One star who has managed to keep the Cyrus clan on side is country music legend and longtime family friend Dolly Parton.
Billy Ray struck up a friendship with Dolly in the Nineties and she has become close with the whole family, even serving as Miley’s godmother.
An insider told Radar Online that Miley had been leaning on her godmother for support amid the feud, saying: ‘Miley knows she can count on her for anything, anytime, that she’s there for her no matter what.’
Another source claimed that Dolly was going above and beyond to heal the family rift, with a source telling National Enquirer: ‘Billy Ray and Miley are like family to Dolly. She’s can’t stand that they’re not talking.’
One star who has managed to keep the Cyrus clan on side is country music legend and longtime family friend Dolly Parton (pictured on Hannah Montana in 2006)
