Billy Ray Cyrus' ex-wife Fire Rose has shared details from the day she found out her marriage was truly over.
The Aussie singer, 34, and the country music star, 63, officially divorced in August, three months after Billy Ray first filed. citing irreconcilable differences'.
And Fairrose says she got the bad news because she was home alone for breast surgery.
She says it came a day before Billie Ray's May 23 divorce filing and the first of two planned surgeries to prevent a mastectomy.
Fairrose decided to undergo the procedure after discovering she had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increases a person's chance of developing the disease. Cancer.
'We went to bed together and when I woke up, he wasn't there,' she tells this week's Stellar magazine.
'It's not unusual for him to shut me down and give me the silent treatment, but it's more unusual for him to leave for a whole day. He didn't come home that night.'
She continued: 'I was alone on the farm with no security lights. I was scared and confused because he didn't answer my calls or texts and he knew I had to be at the hospital the next day.
Billy Ray Cyrus' ex-wife Fairrose has shared the details from the day she learned her marriage was truly over. Image in Stellar magazine
Fairrose said she postponed the surgery, left Billy Ray's ranch the next day, and hasn't spoken to her ex-husband since. She had a mastectomy last month.
During their increasingly contentious divorce, Billy Ray cast doubt on the veracity of this claim by submitting his medical records.
Elsewhere in the interview, the singer discussed her tumultuous marriage and admitted she wanted to 'run away' from the star when she first met.
During their increasingly bitter and public breakup, they accused each other of verbal and emotional abuse, and Fairrose walked out of the divorce with $0.
She said she first met Billy Ray in 2010 when Hanna was leaving an audition on the Hollywood lot. Montana was filmed and chatted with him as she patted his dog.
The Aussie singer, 34, and the country music star, 63, officially finalized their divorce in August, citing 'irreconcilable differences', three months after Billy Ray first filed. Both the film
Fairrose, who was a 22-year-old 'starving artist' at the time, insisted he didn't recognize Billy Rae, who immediately offered to introduce himself to everyone on set.
Billy Ray was married to his wife Tish at the time, but nothing happened between the pair for more than a decade, the Firerose said, keeping in touch.
She said Billy Ray would often talk about them becoming 'soul mates' and he was 'not interested in any way'.
'I couldn't have seen 10 years into the future. When I think about what I went through, I would have told my 22-year-old self to run in the opposite direction and never look back.
The Firerose said they lost touch during the Covid-19 pandemic before Billy Ray reached out and they rekindled their friendship, before a romance eventually blossomed.
Billy Ray's marriage to Firerose, which came four months after Dish filed for divorce, is believed to have strained his relationship with his daughter Miley (Billy, Dish and Miley pictured)
He would say weird things like, “We're going to have this epic love story like you can't even imagine. We're going to have twins and we're going to call them Melody and Harmony,” she teased.
He promised to take her horseback riding around his Nashville ranch and to a special beach in California, but said none of that happened.
Fairrose said she was isolated from her family and friends during their relationship but believed Billy Ray was 'protecting' her.
She recalled: 'Suddenly, instead of being my normal lively, outgoing self, I became very introverted and would try to be more positive because I was afraid to let anyone see me unless we were working or together in public. How destructively I would recoil.
The couple announced their engagement in August 2022 and exchanged vows at their ranch in October 2023, with Fairrose saying she had only one friend in her wedding party – her hairdresser.
She said she wanted to love and trust Billy Ray, but their marriage broke down within seven months and a divorce was granted on the grounds of 'irreconcilable differences'.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Billy Ray's representatives for comment.
Fairrose says she got the bad news because she was home alone for breast surgery
They both alleged verbal and emotional abuse during their public and bitter split, and their divorce was finally settled on August 2 this year.
Court documents obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com showed Fairrose walked away from the divorce with $0, but a source said she was fine with the deal.
More often than not, the divorce settlement saw each party walk away from the brief marriage they first brought about.
However, the terms of the agreement stipulated that Billy Ray agreed to surrender any claims to credits or royalties for songs the couple wrote or released together before and after their union.
'She decided to have nothing to do with him and walk away from the situation,' an insider told DailyMail.com exclusively.
However, Billie Ray has accused Fairrose of marrying him only to have her last name Cyrus, and claims she changed her name from Hodges. First husband's last name – a few weeks before their divorce.
'We went to bed together and when I woke up, he wasn't there,' she says in this week's Stellar magazine. 'It's not unusual for him to shut me down and give me the silent treatment, but it's more unusual for him to leave for a whole day. He did not come home that night.
'I'm so relieved,' Billy Ray said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
“It's unfortunate,” he said. 'Love is blind – that's for sure.'
In July, DailyMail.com released shocking audio in which Billy Ray could be heard belittling and mocking the Australian singer.
Posting on Instagram a day later, his rant and texts were exposed, Billy Ray made no attempt to deny the claims but seemingly doubled down on his words.
He said: 'Yes, I was at my wits' end. As each day passed, I began to sense that something was wrong.
Billy Ray's marriage to Firerose is believed to have come four months after Dish filed for divorce. The 31-year-old had a rift with his daughter Miley.
Billy Ray was engaged to Tish when he first met the Firerose in 2010, but nothing happened until more than a decade later when Tanya Tucker asked him to duet with her on her version of Delta Dawn.
He has been married to Dish for 30 years and they have three children – Miley, Bryson, 30 and Noah, 24.
Billy Ray has a son from a previous relationship and Dish's two older children, Brandi, 37, and Trace, 35, were adopted when they were married.
Read more in this week's issue of Nakshatra magazine
