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How about this domino impact: A likelihood assembly on the Hannah Montana set has prompted one of the largest tabloid tales of 2024. Billy Ray Cyrus is filing to divorce Australian singer Firestone after simply seven months of marriage. Over the previous few months, the allegations have been flying from either side: fraud, abuse, a hidden marriage, retaliation for a double mastectomy. Even Billy Ray’s daughters, Miley and Noah, are caught within the mess. Now, Firerose is laying every part naked to “Page Six” whereas Billy Ray continues to make pointed Instagram posts. Let’s see how issues flamed out and exploded.
Around 2010: Firerose is leaving an audition for a job on Hannah Montana when she runs into actor Billy Ray Cyrus strolling his canine on set. “I was like, This girl’s a star,” Billy Ray later remembers.
July 2, 2021: Firerose releases “New Day,” a duet with Billy Ray.
“FIREROSE is the very definition of persistence, combined with a tremendous amount of talent as a songsmith, vocalist and producer,” Billy Ray tells American Songwriter, which describes him as her “longtime friend.”
September 22, 2021: A Billy Ray press launch teases a “new album written, performed, and produced by Firerose and Billy Ray Cyrus,” and notes that Firerose has signed to Billy Ray’s Sunnagernimo Publishing.
April 6, 2022: Tish Cyrus files for divorce from Billy Ray Cyrus, whom she’s been married to since 1993. It’s the couple’s third time submitting, after beforehand reconciling in 2011 and 2013. This time, Tish says they haven’t been residing collectively for over two years.
April 11, 2022: In a press release to People, Billy Ray and Tish affirm that this time, they’re over for actual. “It is after 30 years, five amazing children and a lifetime of memories, we have decided to go our separate ways — not with sadness, but with love in our hearts,” they are saying.
August 25, 2022: “The world is a better place with you in it,” Firerose writes in an Instagram post for Billy Ray’s birthday.
September 13, 2022: Firerose exhibits off a diamond ring on Instagram, prompting engagement hypothesis.
September 28, 2022: Firerose and Billy Ray have “been dating for a little while,” a supply tells People. Their relationship reportedly got here out of their collaboration, however didn’t overlap with Billy Ray and Tish. “It is what it is,” the supply provides, with no touch upon that ring.
October 20, 2022: Amid rumors of a falling out, a supply tells E! News that Billy Ray’s star daughter Miley “doesn’t have a relationship” with Firerose. “”She, of course, hopes he’s completely happy,” the supply continues. “But Miley has been closer to her mom Tish throughout the divorce.”
November 11, 2022: Billy Ray and Firerose launch their second collaboration, “Time.” “One thing that I know for sure / Is I can never let her go,” they sing.
November 16, 2022: Billy Ray and Firerose announce their engagement in People. Billy Ray shares that he proposed in August, and Firerose later designed her personal ring. “We found this harmony, and this rhythm, this melody to life,” he says. Billy additionally says “there’s no hard feelings” amongst his household in regards to the engagement.
August 10, 2023: Firerose and Billy Ray launch “Plans,” written by Diane Warren.
August 23, 2023: Firerose makes her crimson carpet debut with Billy Ray on the ACM Honors at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. The couple matches in black, with Firerose additionally sporting a pink-and-silver bedazzled jacket.
October 10, 2023: Billy Ray and Firerose get married. Miley, who simply served as maid of honor at Tish’s August wedding ceremony to Dominic Purcell, reportedly didn’t attend. “It was the most perfect, ethereal celebration of love we could have ever imagined,” Billy Ray writes on Instagram the next day.
March 28, 2024: Billy Ray and Firerose launch their fourth track collectively, “After the Storm.” “Only by the grace of God did I survive my darkest nights,” Firerose tells People. “There is so much truth in these lyrics and it’s my purpose to help others find strength in their toughest hours.”
April 12, 2024: Firerose celebrates their six-month anniversary on Instagram. “Life isn’t always easy… but it sure helps when your husband’s also your best friend,” she writes. “Thank you Lord.”
May 23, 2024: Billy Ray releases “You Came Along,” wherein he sings about somebody who “stole my heart so completely.” “Now I know the love is real / I love you now and always will,” he sings within the refrain. The identical day, it would later be reported, he information for divorce from Firerose, over irreconcilable variations and “inappropriate marital conduct.” He moreover information to annul their marriage, citing fraud. Per the submitting, he lists May 22 as their date of separation and asks Firerose to go away their home by May 24.
June 13, 2024: Billy Ray requests a brief restraining order to maintain Firerose from accessing his cash, claiming she racked up practically $97,000 on his bank cards between May 23 and June 7. Firerose’s attorneys hit back that the state of affairs is “no emergency” and she was merely residing “as per the status quo during the marriage,” claming she’s had entry to his playing cards since June 2022.
June 14, 2024: In a new filing, Firerose alleges she “was the victim of extreme verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse” throughout her marriage to Billy Ray. Her attorneys add that Billy Ray’s “persistent drug use” and marijuana consumption made him “unpredictable and volatile.” She says Billy Ray filed for divorce simply in the future earlier than she was slated to have a preventative double mastectomy surgical procedure. Firerose claims that forward of the surgical procedure, Billy Ray “would often call her a ‘selfish fucking bitch’ and continually allege that she was using him.” She says she needed to delay the surgical procedure “indefinitely” with out Billy Ray’s medical health insurance. She additionally claims Billy Ray tried to thwart her profession by forcing her to fireplace their shared supervisor, inflicting her to lose $415,000. On Instagram, Billy Ray shares a word from Johnny Cash, writing, “I made a promise to myself not to look back and only look forward.” Meanwhile, a Miley supply tells Us that “no one approved of the marriage” of their household, including that she thinks the divorce will convey “some peace.” The supply continues, “She thinks this is a good step in the right direction for him.”
June 19, 2024: Responding to Firerose’s claims, Billy Ray accuses Firerose of hiding a previous marriage from him in a new filing. He claims Firerose advised him her final identify was Hodges, nevertheless it was not, and that his attorneys later unearthed her previous divorce, which prompted him to file for divorce. He additionally accuses Firerose of “conducting a campaign to isolate” him from his household, and particularly blocking one of his daughters on his cellphone. A Billy Ray supply tells People Firerose “isn’t the person he thought he married.” The supply accuses her of utilizing him financially, however provides that they’ve a prenup.
June 24, 2024: Billy Ray now claims he was abused by Firerose in a brand new submitting — “not only verbally and emotionally by [Firerose], but PHYSICALLY abused.” Billy Ray’s supervisor, Scott Adkins, says in an affidavit that he witnessed the abuse. Billy Ray additionally denies Firerose’s abuse allegations, citing a word from her asking him to “please give me a chance to make this right.” He moreover claims Firerose threatened to harm his popularity by claiming he was divorcing her over the double mastectomy. A rep for Firerose tells TMZ Adkins’s “credibility is questionable” as an worker of Billy Ray. “What Billy Ray fails to recognize is when you have a decades-long history of emotional and psychological abuse, people start to take notice,” the rep says. “The truth will come to light.”
June 26, 2024: “Sometimes you gotta take your daughter’s advice and just ‘Stand Still,’” Billy Ray writes on Instagram, quoting his daughter Noah Cyrus’s track.
June 30, 2024: Firerose calls Billy Ray “an evil man” in an interview with “Page Six.” She describes alleged “systematic isolation” by Billy Ray, claiming that for a time he didn’t let her have a automobile and solely let her depart the home to go to the chiropractor and get her nails executed as soon as a month. Firerose additionally claims he stored household and pals from visiting, and screened the texts and emails she despatched. She reveals that they started courting lengthy earlier than Billy Ray divorced Tish, and that she was hospitalized two days earlier than their eventual wedding ceremony after passing out from stress. She says their divorce has been “excruciatingly painful” and “a smear campaign.”
July 1, 2024: Billy Ray posts a picture of the phrase fraud over a candle, coated by rose petals, to his Instagram Story.
July 2, 2024: A supply tells People Billy Ray is “trying to put all the drama in the past,” including that the divorce has been “annoying” to him.