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Billy Ray Cyrus’achy-breaky-heart has been through the wringer several times over.

Billy Ray and Smith tied the knot in 1986 and split up in 1991.

Billy Ray Cyrus posing for photos in a black leather jacket

The couple married the following year and later became parents to four more kids.

As time passed, Billy Ray and Tish kept us all convinced that their marriage would last forever.

Unfortunately, that notion was shattered in 2010 when Billy Ray filed for divorce.

Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose posing for photos

Firerose elaborated on Cyrus' alleged abuse during a June 2024 interview withPage Six.

“Billy had very strict rules,” she posited.

“I didn’t have a car.

Billy Ray Cyrus posing for photos

The Grammy winner also cycled between gushing about and berating her.

Additionally, Firerose couldn’t even text her loved ones without his approval.

“Not only verbally and emotionally by [Firerose] but PHYSICALLY abused by [Firerose].”

Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Cyrus smiling for photos

In it, the singer expressed her regrets and asked her then-husband for an opportunity to set things right.

The country singer also claimed that he had ongoing suspicions about Firerose’s last name.

And the discovery had supposedly been the breaking point for their marriage in the end.

Tish Cyrus and Miley Cyrus smiling for photos with Billy Ray Cyrus and Noah Cyrus

The music manager admitted that the prospect of being single in her 50s sent her spiraling.

“I thought I was going to be alone forever.

And that was one of the times that I had the crippling breakdown of anxiety.”

Billy Ray Cyrus posing for photos

And it was really scary.”

Noah apparently made her loyalties abundantly clear by donning a tee featuring her dad’s face.

Sadly, Miley appears to have a similarly fractured relationship with their father.

They also confirmed that Noah’s loyalty to her dad had driven a wedge between herself and Miley.