Overview

• Cyrus said her family endured ten years of estrangement following her 2013 Bangerz era and her parents’ 2022 divorce, during which half of them stopped speaking.
• She described the buildup of unresolved tensions as “emotional hoarding” and chose to break the cycle by initiating shared, joyful moments instead of formal therapy.
• The singer has reconciled with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, and made repairing sibling relationships a central part of her past year.
• Her new visual album Something Beautiful, released May 30, chronicles her healing process and she is already working on a song titled “Secrets” about family dynamics.
• Cyrus reflected that her provocative image in 2013 humiliated her siblings and strained her personal bonds, lessons she has since woven into her music.