‘It’s a Happy, Pure Love’

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Billy Ray Cyrus is sharing his core beliefs. First, the nation music star is aware of what makes for a great duet. (Nineteen weeks of “Previous City Highway” with Lil Nas X at No. 1 helped solidify that.) He is sure of the worth canine carry to this world. (He is satisfied his late German Shepherd Tex was a matchmaker — extra on that in a second.) And right here on the age of 61, he is lastly satisfied of Newton’s Third Legislation. However ever the insurgent, he has his personal spin on the notion motion and response. “For every thing that is good,” he says, “there’s at all times been one thing equally as unhealthy.” That is been his expertise, he says. “I’ve by no means actually identified the center.”

The singer and actor is named a lot because the singer of “Achy Breaky Coronary heart,” which launched him into stardom 30 years in the past, as being father to Miley, which launched her to stardom after they each appeared on Hannah Montana from 2006 to 2011. He’s performing once more, in a brand new film, Christmas in Paradise with Kelsey Grammar and Elizabeth Hurley. Of working with Hurley, he says, “On set I simply thought, “This needs to be what working with Elizabeth Taylor was like.”

Cyrus says after a interval of “unhealthy” (he and spouse Tish divorced in April, his mom Ruth Ann Casto died 4 months later) he is now getting some “good.” He is engaged. And sure, he says, Tex launched him to his fiancée, a 34-year-old singer who goes solely by the identify Firerose. (About her identify: It was given to her by her grandmother as a baby in Australia, she says, and is now her authorized identify. “It is at all times how I’ve recognized.”) “She’s the true deal,” Cyrus says.

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It was 12 years in the past, and Cyrus was on the set of the Disney Channel collection in Los Angeles. “I cherished doing that present,” he remembers. “There is a couple outdated pine bushes on the lot that appear to be Tennessee. Tex and I’d go on the market in the midst of the day and he’d care for his enterprise and we would stretch and I might suppose how a lot I missed Tennessee. On that given day, Firerose got here out of the entrance door. There was nearly a second of, I do not know, recognition. I used to be like, ‘This woman’s a star.'”

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There was no method Cyrus may have identified her. However Firerose knew who Cyrus was. “Rising up in Australia, my love of music was predominant over every thing,” she says. “I’ve identified his music since endlessly.”

“‘Since endlessly,'” Cyrus playfully mocks. “That is how lengthy I have been round.”

Firerose came visiting to say hello to Tex. “She informed me she’d had an audition and I stated, “Effectively, I am certain you bought the job.” Firerose would not bear in mind what she auditioned for, however she didn’t get the job. Cyrus had an concept that day. “I simply thought, properly, the casting brokers, the producers, the writers, they’re all on the ground of the place we do Hannah Montana. And I really stated to her, ‘Do not ever take an odd man up on this supply, however, on this case, Tex will testify that you’ll be completely protected. I’ll introduce you to a producer and you may form of make your self at house and watch us rehearse and you recognize, possibly it’d result in a job or simply one other contact at Disney.’ And so, off me and her and Tex went again to the studio and I believe she met a variety of the solid and met the producers, writers. And, in some methods, properly, in a variety of methods, we grew to become mates.”

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They stayed in contact. Firerose requested Cyrus to listen to a few of her music. “Our friendship was so strong through the years,” says Firerose. Because the pandemic started, they grew to become songwriting companions. “She performs all of her personal devices and writes her personal songs,” says Cyrus. “We started sharing music, and it simply advanced.” In July 2021 they launched “New Day,” their first music collectively. “Billy confided in me a variety of what was occurring in his life,” Firerose says, alluding to his marital strife. “I used to be simply one of the best good friend I may presumably be, supporting him.”

Cyrus and Tish have since finalized their divorce. (It was the third time the couple had filed.) Shifting on afterward “took a variety of prayer. A lot,” says Cyrus, who requested Firerose in the event that they might be greater than mates.

“There was illness and demise, and laborious instances,” Cyrus says of life through the pandemic. “The entire sudden, the life that I’ve at all times referred to as a touring artist did not exist anymore. A second of a lot change. And on the similar time, Firerose, who had been such a lightweight of positivity, such a finest good friend. After which once we started sharing the music, it simply advanced extra into, as musical soulmates, to soulmates, completely happy, pure love that to me, I did not know may exist. Once more, we’re musicians, at the beginning, each of us. And we discovered this concord, and this rhythm, this melody to life.”

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Within the early summer time Firerose moved to Cyrus’s Franklin, Tenn., farm, the place his mom, then ailing, was additionally residing. In August, Cyrus proposed. There was no bended knee. No ring. “Billy checked out me and stated, ‘Do you, do you wanna marry me?’ And I used to be similar to, ‘In fact I do. I really like you,’ ” says Firerose, who later picked out a diamond and designed her personal ring. “He stated, ‘I really like you. I wanna make this official. I wanna be with you endlessly.’ “

Regardless of rumors of a rift along with his kids — he’s dad to son Christopher Cody (with ex-girlfriend Kristin Luckey), 30, and shares daughters Miley, Brandi, 35, and Noah, 22, and sons Hint, 33, and Braison, 28, with Tish — Cyrus says there aren’t any laborious emotions. “Everybody knew that that relationship was over a very long time in the past,” he says. “All people’s turning the web page. It has been so much, however everybody knew that it was time for a change.”

Cyrus says his new single with Firerose, titled “Time” (see the unique music video above), is a reckoning. “I’ve spent my life nervous about issues which can be past my management. However at this spot in my life, figuring out that every one you actually have is the happiness that you simply really feel inside your thoughts and your coronary heart . . .” He pauses and begins to cry. “Discovering Firerose and getting engaged after which dropping my mother [a few weeks later]—see? The teeter-totter won’t keep within the center,” he says. “However having any individual to journey it out with now—that is giving me just a little extra stability.”