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Tish Cyrus is opening up about how divorcing her husband of 30 years, Billy Ray Cyrus, affected her mental health.
While appearing on Wednesday’s episode of “calls his daddyOn the podcast, Tish, 56, opened up about her difficult decision to leave the country singer, 62, the same year her mother died in 2020.
“It was crazy because honestly, my two biggest fears in life were always being alone and my mom passing away,” manager and producer Tish Cyrus said.
Noting that Billy Ray Cyrus was living in Tennessee while she remained in California, where her superstar daughter Miley Cyrus lives, she said: “I had a complete psychological breakdown for a month. It was the worst; it was not good. “I just brushed the mom thing under the rug, and then the divorce thing came.”
The former couple went through brief separations in 2010 and 2013, then they ended the marriage in 2022.
And he added: “I couldn’t eat. I could not sleep. I couldn’t stop crying. I literally weighed like 130. I don’t have my mom, and I don’t have my husband, who has been my husband for 30 years. “Shit, I’m scared.”
Tish Cyrus said that during the difficult time she approached famed psychiatrist Daniel Amen to ask him to “please put me in a mental hospital,” but he advised her against it, which she said was ultimately for the better.
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Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus married in 1993, but she admitted they hadn’t been in “a good place for a long time,” adding that her crippling fear of being alone prolonged their relationship for “so long.”
“(He just) looked at me and said, ‘What the hell are you doing?’” he recalled. “And then I literally made that firm decision and thought, ‘I’m moving on with my life.’ And you know what, girl? It worked out for the best.”
Billy Ray became engaged to Australian singer Firerose in August 2022, just months after Tish filed for divorce and married in October 2023. Tish became engaged to “Prison Break” star Dominic Purcell in November 2022 and married in August 2023.
The exes had three children together: Miley, 31, Braison, 29, and Noah, 24. They also share two children, Brandi, 36, and Trace, 34, from Tish’s previous relationship. The “Achy Breaky Heart” singer is also father to Christopher, 31, from a previous relationship.