Did 'Hannah Montana' DESTROY Miley Cyrus' Family Tish Cyrus Reacts! _ E! News(1)
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00:00 "Absolutely not."
00:01 "Not at all."
00:02 "Yeah."
00:03 "No."
00:04 "Yeah, okay."
00:05 "I mean, the family's not destroyed."
00:06 Tish Cyrus is reacting to Billy Ray Cyrus' claim that Hannah Montana destroyed their
00:12 family.
00:13 Miley's mom shuts down the singer's 2011 assertion that the Disney Channel series destroyed
00:20 their family.
00:22 Tish, who officially divorced Billy Ray in 2022, says this on the February 6th episode
00:29 of the Call Her Daddy podcast.
00:31 "Did you guys feel that way?"
00:34 "Absolutely not."
00:35 "Not at all."
00:36 "Yeah."
00:37 "No."
00:38 "Yeah, okay."
00:39 "I mean, the family's not destroyed."
00:40 "Yeah."
00:41 "First of all."
00:42 "Exactly."
00:43 "We're doing great."
00:44 "Yeah."
00:45 "But yeah, no, not at all."
00:46 "No, I just think he was having a moment."
00:47 "Mm-hmm."
00:48 "Because, I mean, it was...
00:49 I'm trying to be politically correct."
00:52 "Straight up hurt."
00:53 "And I don't want to call you to not freaking out."
00:54 "I don't want you to call me either, Tish."
00:55 "I don't want you to call me either."
00:56 "I don't want you to call me either."
00:57 "I don't want you to call me either, Tish, please.
00:59 Pick your words."
01:00 "It's like 4 a.m."
01:01 "Haley's cringing right now."
01:02 "Hey, girl."
01:03 "Hey, girl, I just woke up.
01:04 Did I say this?"
01:05 "Yes."
01:06 "No?
01:07 Yes?"
01:08 "I mean, he had done achy breaky and nothing else was working."
01:12 "Mm-hmm."
01:13 "And then I brought Miley out to audition for Hannah and she had gotten it.
01:18 And then one of the casting directors said a joke, like, 'Ugh, too bad we can't afford
01:25 her real dad.'
01:26 And I said, 'Oh, maybe you can.'"
01:31 Tish goes on to explain that she encouraged Billy Ray to audition for the role of Hannah
01:36 Montana's father on the show.
01:38 "We had just been in Toronto living because he had done another show in Toronto."
01:43 "Mm-hmm."
01:44 "And so we all had to go back and forth and it was really hard on the kids.
01:47 And so I was like, if Miley, and Miley had already gotten Hannah, and I was already stressed
01:53 about, like, what are we going to do?
01:56 Like, I couldn't as a mom have half my kids in Tennessee and be out here with Miley.
02:00 Like, I just could not do that.
02:02 And so I was like, I have to bring all the kids.
02:04 And so then that's when I said to Billy Ray, 'You should come audition for the dad.'
02:10 And because they love you and they're really interested, yes, it would be a pay cut, but
02:15 our family could be together."
02:16 E! News has reached out to Billy Ray's rep for comment on Tish's remarks and has not
02:21 yet heard back.
02:23 Tish goes on to elaborate on how she managed to juggle raising the couple's five kids and
02:29 managing Miley's entertainment career, even mentioning her current husband, Dominic Purcell,
02:35 who she married in 2023.
02:38 "I look back on it now, and I honestly don't know how I did it.
02:43 And up until literally, I don't know if you know, but I just got married.
02:49 She loves to bring this up.
02:51 A flick of the hair, like, I don't know if you know, babe."
02:54 "I mean, honestly, he is just everything.
02:57 And he made me realize, like, what I did is badass.
03:02 But I just made it work and I took the kids.
03:05 But, you know, it was a sacrifice for everyone."
03:09 "Of course."
03:11 "I love you."
03:12 "I love you."
03:13 "I love you."
03:14 "I love you."
03:16 "I love you."
03:18 "I love you."
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