Trace’s letter continues, “You’re not healthy Dad & everyone is noticing it. Just like I showed up for you at mamaws funeral when you didn’t expect me to I’m still here right now. As I write this with tears in my eyes I hope you realize this message only comes from a place of love and also fear that the world may lose you far too soon. I love you Dad. We haven’t talked in a while but I’m over a year and half clean from alcohol. Guess what? I feel amazing. I don’t know what you’re struggling with exactly but I think I have a pretty good idea & I’d love to help you if you would open up and receive the help. You know how to reach me. Till that day comes I will continue to pray for you.”
June 12, 2024: During an appearance on David Letterman’s Netflix show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, Miley Cyrus addresses her relationship with both of her parents, and how each of them played a different role in her upbringing.
Letterman began by asking Miley whether she is truly estranged from her father, or if that’s just “how things are played” in the media.
“I think what is so beautiful is that my parents…they served their children,” Miley said, per People. “My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”
As for how her father shaped her career and how she handles fame, she said, “I’m grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me. He’s almost given me this map. And there’s a map of what to do and what not to do, and he’s guided me on both.”
“I also inherited the narcissism from my father,” she said elsewhere in the interview, not one to let a sappy moment pass unchecked.
The real praise, however, Miley saved for her mom. “Honestly, my mom is my hero,” she said of Tish, who was also present on the show.
“Without my dad, I know—I mean, not just literally I wouldn’t be sitting in this chair, I wouldn’t exist—but I would not, who I am as a person, it wouldn’t exist. Because my dad, as a creative and as an artist in the way that his brain works, has always made me feel safer in my own mind because we’re very similar in our ideas,” she continued. “So I think a lot of his perspective on reality and on life, I’ve inherited from him, more so than the way that I was raised—which really, my mom raised me.”
June 11, 2024: Billy Ray Cyrus files for divorce from his wife of seven months, the country singer-songwriter Firerose. In court documents obtained by People, Billy Ray cites irreconcilable differences and inappropriate marital conduct as the reasons for the split. He also files to have the marriage annulled on the grounds of fraud.
April 27, 2024: Noah posts pictures of herself and her boyfriend at Coachella on Instagram, captioned with the Lana Del Rey lyric, “Dear lord, when I get to heaven, please let me bring my man.” (She later deleted the photo.)
