Inside Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky Road to Elizabeth Hurley Romance (2025)

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"This has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of," Billy Ray said in an August statement to E! News. "Let alone the fact I'm right in the center and basically the target of the scheme. It's unfortunate it played out this way. Not only was it a web of lies that put me in physical danger, it was a matter of the heart. Love is blind, that's for sure."

As for Firerose, a source close to her told E! she wanted to settle because it was "important to her that this continuous smear campaign end, and the emotional turmoil stop so she can close the door on this chapter."

And Billy Ray has shut a few other doors throughout his decades of dating. Prior to his relationship with Firerose, Billy Ray was married to Tish Cyrus for almost 30 years. Together, they welcomed kids Miley Cyrus, 32, Braison Cyrus, 30, and Noah Cyrus, 25, and he adopted her children Brandi Cyrus, 37, and Trace Cyrus, 36, from a previous relationship. Their brood also included his son Christopher Cyrus, 33, whose mother is Kristin Luckey.

But after nearly three decades of marriage—which included filing for divorce in 2010 and 2013 only to later reconcile—Billy Ray and Tish split for good in 2022.

"I never wanted to be divorced," the podcaster, now married to Dominic Purcell, said on a November episode of Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson’s podcast Sibling Revelry. "My mom and dad met on a Monday, got married on a Friday and were together until my dad passed away—great childhood, best example of a marriage you could ever imagine. And also, just for us, you’re in the public eye. The world that we exist in is already so odd and sometimes unstable, I wanted to make it work probably for a little too long for my own mental health….There became a point I didn’t have a choice."

However, Billy Ray’s marriage to Tish wasn’t the first time he’d tied the knot.

He detailed meeting Cindy Cyrus—who cowrote his songs "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "Some Gave All"—at a bar in his2013 memoir Hillbilly Heart.

"The first night I remember seeing Cindy, she was wearing a small halter top and very short shorts," he recalled. "It was probably twelve fifteen on a Friday or Saturday, and with her sweet little face, greenish blue eyes and that outfit, Cindy stood out among the crowd on a packed dance floor."

The two wed in 1986 after just a few months of knowing each other. However, Billy Ray wrote that their marriage became "more of a party than a traditional partnership" and that there were “entanglements,” including his relationship with Kari Reeves (the daughter of country music singer Del Reeves).

In 1991, Cindy filed for divorce. "There were no hard feelings," Billy Ray wrote. "Both of us recognized our marriage was a relic from another time."

As for Elizabeth’s dating history, her exes include actor Hugh Grant, basketball player-turned coach Steve Nash, businessman Arun Nayar (the pair were married from 2007 to 2011) and late cricketer Shane Warne (who became her fiancé in 2011 before they called off their engagement two years later).

And while you can tell our hearts every last detail of this latest coupling, it’s not the only reason that Billy Ray has made headlines lately with much speculation devoted to his rumored rifts with some of his children.