Billy Ray Cyrus has “vehemently” denied accusations of abuse from his estranged spouse Firerose, and alleged that he was “bodily, verbally and emotionally” abused by her throughout their marriage.

In new courtroom paperwork filed on Monday (June 24), Cyrus referred to claims he had abused his spouse as “thoughts boggling”. Although he admits to being “vocal, pissed off and indignant” with Firerose, he demanded “strict proof” of her abuse allegations. The paperwork additionally record Cyrus’s supervisor, Scott Adkins, as a witness to occasions.

Cyrus filed for divorce from Firerose in Could, lower than a yr after their marriage in October 2023. The courtroom paperwork cite the rationale for divorce as irreconcilable variations and inappropriate marital conduct. Cyrus can be searching for an annulment on the grounds of fraud, claiming that Firerose lied about her final identify and being married twice earlier than.

The brand new paperwork come after Firerose filed a grievance in a Tennessee courtroom earlier this month, which alleged that Cyrus was “unpredictable and risky” throughout their marriage. Her lawyer wrote “Spouse was the sufferer of maximum verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse,” on June 14. Firerose, who was a provider of the BRCA1 gene linked to breast most cancers, additionally alleged that Cyrus filed for divorce a day previous to a deliberate, preventative double mastectomy.

Cyrus has now disputed these claims, alleging that Firerose beforehand threatened to inform the general public that he left her as a result of she was getting a double mastectomy, if he filed for divorce.

The pair met whereas Cyrus was engaged on Hannah Montana, the present that launched daughter Miley Cyrus‘ profession. They then collaborated in 2021 on the tune ‘New Day’, earlier than getting engaged in September 2022.

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Earlier this yr, Miley Cyrus addressed rumours of estrangement from her father in an interview with David Letterman. 

Talking on Letterman’s Netflix discuss present My Subsequent Visitor Wants No Introduction, Miley mentioned “I’m grateful for with the ability to watch him forward of me. He’s nearly given me this map. And there’s a map of what to do and what to not do, and he’s guided me on each […] I additionally inherited the narcissism from my father.”

In 2019, Cyrus joined Lil Nas X and Miley on stage at Glastonbury Pageant to carry out their hit single ‘Outdated City Highway’.