Billy Ray Cyrus wishes daughter Miley Cyrus a happy birthday after their apparent estrangement

Billy Ray Cyrus wished his daughter Miley Cyrus a happy birthday.

The 63-year-old country music singer is believed to have become somewhat estranged from pop superstar daughter Miley several years after he divorced her mother Tish Cyrus, but on Friday (11/23/23) he took to social media to publicly acknowledge she turned 32.

He wrote on Instagram: “Happy Birthday Mile!!! I hope it will be the best thing ever! I know I dropped the “th”. That’s what I called @mileycyrus for most of her life.”

The “Flowers” hitmaker did not publicly acknowledge her father’s message but thanked fans for their well wishes on her special day.

She wrote: “Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes.”

“My gift to my fans is to celebrate my 6 million records with you.”

Billy Ray had a successful music career and most notably found success with “Achy Breaky Heart” years before he and Miley teamed up to star in the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana.

The show, which featured Miley as a schoolgirl who was secretly a pop star, ran from 2006 to 2011, but it is believed that Miley and her father have had a rocky relationship since he married the Firerose singer in October 2023, although he applied to be on the show. divorce in less than a year.

Billy Ray began dating Fairroza in 2022, but met her more than a decade ago when she auditioned for a project at the same studio where he and Miley filmed the late 2000s sitcom.

Despite rumors of their apparent estrangement, Miley recently said she loves her father “very much.”

During an appearance on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, Miley was asked about her relationship with her parents, and the host mused, “Is it likely that both parents will play an equal role in your life—no matter where that is.” will one or the other always be closer as events unfold?”

She replied: “It’s not really about intimacy. I think the point is that my mother was raised by a completely friendly, beautiful family. Actually, my mom was adopted, so my mom was chosen.”

“Her parents couldn’t have children, so they wanted her more than anything. So, my mother came into this world desired, loved and given the most wonderful life. My grandmother completely ruined not only her, but also me. .My father didn’t have that.

“My father was raised in a very poor family, in a very small town. His parents divorced when he was very young.

“My dad had a pretty rough childhood, and my childhood, really—I mean, we can keep talking about hard times and struggles; you know, turning in homework and learning my lines was hard – but I had food, I had love, I grew up in a nice big house.

“But my father didn’t have this. So I have a lot of empathy and compassion for his childhood, which obviously developed into creating the person he is now, which I love very much.”