Billy Ray Cyrus wished his daughter Miley Cyrus a happy birthday following their apparent split.

Saturday November 23, 2024 11:00 p.m.

Saturday November 23, 2024 11:00 p.m.

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 his daughter, pop superstar Miley, in the years since divorcing her mother, Tish Cyrus, but on Friday (23.11.23 ), he took to social media to publicly recognize her as she turned 32.

He wrote on Instagram: “Happy birthday Mile!!! I hope it’s the best ever! I know I dropped the ‘y’. That’s what I called it @mileycyrus most of his life.”

The “Flowers” singer didn’t publicly acknowledge her father’s message, but thanked her fans for their best wishes on her special day.

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

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

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

The show – which followed Miley as a schoolgirl with a secret pop star identity – ran from 2006 to 2011, but it is believed Miley and her father were on difficult terms since he married singer Firerose in October 2023, although he has filed an application. divorced after less than a year.

Billy Ray started dating Firerose in 2022, but had met her more than a decade before, when she was auditioning for a project at the same studios where he and Miley filmed the late 2000s sitcom.

Despite rumors of their apparent split, Miley recently said she has “a lot of love” for her father.

During an appearance on “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman,” Miley was asked about her relationship with her parents, with the host wondering, “Is it unlikely that both parents share an equal role in your life – where it is will always be one or the other closer as things evolve?”

She replied: “It’s really not the closeness. I think it’s the capacity in which my mother was raised by a beautiful, completely intact family. In fact, my mother was adopted, so my mother was chosen.

“Her parents couldn’t have children, so they wanted her more than anything in the world. So, my mother came into this world being wanted, loved and given the most beautiful life. My grandmother gave her spoiled, but me too, completely rotten.

“The way my father was raised, he grew up very poor in a very small town. His parents divorced when he was very young.

“My father had a pretty difficult childhood and my childhood, really – I mean, we can go on and talk about the hard times and the difficulties; you know, handing in my homework and learning my text was difficult – but I had some food, I had love, I grew up in a beautiful, big house.

“And my dad didn’t have that. So I have a lot of empathy and compassion for his childhood, which obviously grew into the man he is now that I have a lot of love for. “