Miley Cyrus Reacts to Dad Billy Ray Cyrus' Blossoming Romance with Elizabeth Hurley: 'I’m Being an Adult About It'

Miley Cyrus is celebrating nan emotion successful her father's life.

In an question and reply pinch The New York Times published connected Saturday, May 31, nan singer, 32, opened up astir her narration pinch dada Billy Ray Cyrus — revealing they are nary longer estranged — arsenic good arsenic his romance pinch Elizabeth Hurley.

"I deliberation timing is everything. As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents arsenic individuals alternatively of arsenic parents — because my mom really loved my dada for her full life, and I deliberation being joined to personification successful nan euphony manufacture and not being a portion of it is evidently really hard," Miley said.

Detailing that she believes she "took connected immoderate of my mom’s wounded arsenic my own, because it wounded her much than it wounded maine arsenic an adult," nan Something Beautiful musician continued, "I owned a batch of her pain."

"But now that my mom is truthful successful emotion pinch my stepdad, who I wholly adore, and now that my dad, I spot him uncovering happiness, excessively — I tin emotion them some arsenic individuals alternatively of arsenic a parental pairing. I’m being an big astir it," she added, referring to mom Tish Cyrus' matrimony to Dominic Purcell, and really dada Billy Ray, 63, is making love Hurley, 59.

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Billy Ray and Tish divorced successful 2022 aft almost 3 decades of marriage. The mates initially wed successful 1993, and later welcomed 3 children together: Miley, Braison and Noah. Billy Ray besides adopted Tish's children, Brandi and Trace.

After splitting for good, nan erstwhile spouses recovered caller love. Tish married Purcell, 55, successful August 2023, and Billy Ray wed Firerose successful October 2023, though they split little than a twelvemonth later. The "Achy Breaky Heart" vocalist started making love Hurley earlier this year.

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According to Miley, getting to an evolved viewpoint of really she looks astatine her mom and dada pursuing their divorcement was a process.

"At first it’s hard, because nan small kid successful you reacts earlier nan big successful you tin go, 'Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s conscionable different personification that deserves to beryllium successful his bliss and to beryllium happy,' " she told nan Times. "My kid aforesaid has caught up."

When asked by nan Times really she and her family woody pinch their play playing retired successful nan nationalist oculus — particularly aft they went done a tumultuous clip together successful caller years — Miley had a candid response.

"The point I for illustration astir nan caller measurement that nan world useful is that everything is truthful fast," nan "Angels Like You" crooner said.

"In nan ’90s, erstwhile thing happened successful a tabloid, retrieve really it would hap for a year? Now it’s conscionable gone," she further explained. "Something whitethorn look really important for a mates of hours, but past there’s a meme that goes viral, personification scats astatine Walmart, and that becomes nan adjacent thing."

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"Anything that’s happening successful nan public, it tin beryllium embarrassing for nan personification that’s experiencing it, not truthful overmuch for me," continued Miley. "I conscionable effort to beryllium much compassionate to my parents, because I dislike that for them. And I mostly dislike it for my siblings, because they didn’t take that benignant of item connected themselves."

"But for me," added nan star, "I’ve gotten truthful utilized to it that I’m like, 'If this is nan denotation — that sometimes we woody pinch these embarrassing aliases difficult nationalist opinions — past that’s thing I’m consenting to return to person nan life that we have.' "