Miley Cyrus Shouts Out Dad Billy Ray Cyrus Amid His Absence at Walk of Fame Ceremony
Billy Ray Cyrus is grateful for his current chapter.
Because at one point, his forthcoming album The Hill and his relationship with Elizabeth Hurley were in jeopardy.
The 64-year-old recently revealed he experienced near-fatal sepsis in 2024, the recovery from which he told People in an interview published June 10 was nothing short of a “miracle.”
But not only did the experience threaten his life, but the recovery left him with a scary side-effect: temporary vocal paralysis.
During that low period, however, Billy Ray found encouragement from an unusual source among the sprawling Cyrus family. His grandson Bear—5-year-old son of Billy Ray and ex-wife Tish Cyrus’ youngest son Braison Cyrus—was the person to help Billy Ray see a way forward.
“In this very broken moment of my life, my little grandson Bear looked at me and said, ‘Try again,’” he recalled. “And up until that moment, he had never spoken to me at all. I wasn’t even sure if he knew my name.”
He continued, “In that moment I thought, ‘He’s telling you something.’ Is it about love? Music? Somehow, I got to try again at both. So, I’m learning to try again.”
