Miley's dad pours his "Achy Breaky" heart out in the new issue of GQ. Like any father, his first instinct is to protect his daughter. Even though at 18 she is technically an adult. But having handlers stand in the way isn’t something most dads will ever encounter.
Following a leaked photo of then-17-year-old (underage) Miley holding a Corona in Spain and a handful of other controversies, Billy Ray jumped into action, questioning how this was made public.
"They told me," he says "it was none of my business."
That’s right. Miley’s people essentially told her father that he was not to be concerned with his own daughter. These are the some of the same people who he says are “perhaps more interested in handling Miley's money than her safety and her career.”
"I'm scared for her. She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger,” he confesses. “I know she's 18, but I still feel like as her daddy I'd like to try to help.”
There is no handbook on parenting. Mistakes are made. But if there is one move Billy Ray seems to be proud of, it’s the fact that while people all around Miley are benefiting financially from her fame, he isn’t one of them.
"For the record," he abruptly announces during the GQ interview, "to set it straight, I want to tell you: I've never made a dime off of Miley. You got a lot of people have made percentages off of her. I'm proud to say to this day I've never made one commissioned dollar, or dime, off of my daughter.”
It’s worth noting that Miley Cyrus raked in an estimated $48 million in 2010.
During the lengthy interview, Cyrus eventually compares Miley three superstars who all share the common bond of tragedy—Kurt Cobain (who Billy Ray considered a good friend), Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson. When asked if he worries Miley is going down the same path of these late celebrities, he doesn’t hide his anxiety.
"I don't know,” Billy Ray says. “I'm her daddy so maybe I'm a little sensitive to it, but now's a real good time to make sure everything's okay.”
While he tacks a fair share of the blame of Miley’s wild ways on her selfish handlers and himself for being trying to be more of a friend than a parent, Billy Ray hurls most of the responsibility for the collapse of his formerly happy family at the “Hannah Montana” show.
"Oh, it's huge—it destroyed my family,” he says of the TV show that rocketed Miley into superstardom. “I'll tell you right now—the damn show destroyed my family.”
The show, “Hannah Montana,” that he joined to support his daughter ultimately drove a wedge between them and if he could go back and do things differently, Miley never have been known as Hannah at all because Billy Ray never would’ve let her take the job.
"I'd take it back in a second,” he admits. “For my family to be here and just be everybody okay, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I'd erase it all in a second if I could."
Billy Ray Cyrus filed for divorce from his wife and Miley’s Mom, Tish, on Oct. 26, 2010, citing irreconcilable differences.
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