Billy Ray Cyrus claimed in new court docket paperwork that his estranged spouse Firerose tried to dam one in every of his daughters from speaking with him amid their bitter divorce battle.
The 62-year-old nation singer’s surprising accusation comes after weeks of mudslinging, with Cyrus even submitting for a brief restraining order from Firerose, claiming that she made $96,986 price of unauthorized costs on his accounts. For her half, Firerose, 35, has claimed that she was set to endure a preventative double mastectomy the day earlier than Cyrus filed for divorce on Could 22, and has accused him of verbal and psychological abuse throughout their relationship.
Within the new court docket paperwork, obtained by The Unbiased, Billy Ray alleged that his estranged spouse, whose actual title is Johanna Rosie Hodges, tried to alienate him from his relations, together with no less than one in every of his daughters. The “Phrases by Coronary heart” singer and his ex Tish Cyrus share three daughters — Brandi, 37, Miley, 31, and Noah, 24 — and two sons, Hint, 35, and Braison, 30.
“Because the Plaintiff filed his preliminary criticism, he found that the Defendant had been conducting a marketing campaign to isolate the Plaintiff from his household,” his criticism reads. The doc additionally claimed that Firerose took his cellphone and blocked one in every of his daughter’s numbers.
“He has found that the Defendant, unknowingly to Plaintiff, blocked no less than one in every of his daughters from having the ability to contact him on his cellphone(s) or digital units,” the criticism continues.
Within the new submitting, Billy Ray Cyrus additionally alleged that Firerose lied about her identification. He claimed that she falsely stated that “Hodges” was her maiden title and that she’d by no means been married earlier than they tied the knot.
“Throughout this time the Defendant repeatedly asserted that the Plaintiff was her soulmate,” the movement reads. “And that the Defendant needed Plaintiff to be her one and solely Husband.”
Cyrus stated that in Could 2024 he came upon the reality when he overheard her refering to herself “with a final title that he didn’t know” whereas she was talking to the IRS.
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Billy Ray’s authorized workforce later obtained a duplicate of her 2014 California divorce judgment, which allegedly revealed Firerose’s previous marriage and that the title “Hodges” belonged to her ex-husband.
The Unbiased has contacted representatives for Billy Ray and Firerose for remark.
The singer’s declare about his ex isolating him from his household comes weeks after Cyrus appeared to try to reconnect together with his pop star daughter Miley amid rumors of a feud. Earlier this month, he took to Instagram to share a candy throwback picture of him and Miley from when she was a child, alongside a poem titled “The Second” that he had written.
“I’m extremely pleased with her. She’s a survivor and a real artist. She discovered early on to like and recognize the followers who make the whole lot attainable,” he continued.
When he first filed for divorce, Cyrus cited irreconcilable variations and “inappropriate marital conduct” as the explanations for the break up. He additionally listed their date of separation as Could 22, 2024. Within the authorized paperwork, Cyrus requested an instantaneous annulment, with “claims his marriage was obtained by fraud.”
He later filed a brief restraining order from his ex, which might preserve Firerose from any “unauthorized” purchases by way of his private {and professional} bank cards and accounts. The singer alleged that his estranged spouse spent $96,986 by way of 37 unauthorized costs on his enterprise account, with one of many costs being a $70,665 fee to her legal professionals.
Firerose later responded to the divorce submitting with claims that she “was the sufferer of maximum verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse” all through their relationship, in line with court docket paperwork obtained by Individuals.
She additionally alleged that Cyrus filed for divorce solely someday earlier than she was set to endure a preventative double mastectomy. The process was really useful by her medical doctors after she was discovered to be a provider of the BRCA1 gene mutation, that means she was extra more likely to develop breast most cancers, court docket paperwork say.
Firerose claimed that because the date of the surgical procedure approached, her estranged husband “constantly launched verbal assaults” at her.
“With Spouse’s main surgical procedure date looming, she was moderately afraid to go away or search any kind of assist as a result of she feared that Husband would intervene along with her surgical procedure or her prolonged restoration at dwelling,” the criticism reads. The doc additionally alleged that whereas Cyrus went again on a “promise” to pay for her surgical procedure.
In a press release to The Unbiased, Billy Ray’s authorized workforce responded to Firerose’s allegations, claiming her remarks “are particularly complicated and suspicious in its veracity since she begged [Billy Ray] to forgive her and take her again solely two days after he filed his pleadings to dissolve his marriage.”
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“When Mr. Cyrus returned to his dwelling two days after Ms. Hodges was required, by Courtroom Order, to vacate his residence of over 25 years and allowed him to return, he found a handwritten word from Ms. Hodges professing her love and have to be with Mr. Cyrus,” the assertion continues.
Within the alleged handwritten word from Firerose, shared with The Unbiased, she expressed how a lot she missed her Billy Ray and needed to work issues out between them. Billy Ray’s authorized workforce additionally shared a prolonged textual content message he obtained from her, “shortly after she was required to vacate his premarital residence.”
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Within the textual content, she wrote: “I don’t need us to be on completely different sides preventing a battle that no one wins. I’m going to do what you’re telling me since you promise me we are able to speak as quickly as I’ve left and I belief you. I’m praying with my whole soul that we are able to discover one another once more as we speak.”
