Wednesday, June 26, 2024 -Country singer, Billy Ray Cyrus is claiming that estranged wife Firerose, was "physically," "verbally and emotionally" abusive to him during their seven-month marriage in a new court filing.
The country star also denied Firerose’s
previous accusations made in a counter-suit that he abused her.
"While the Plaintiff would acknowledge that he was certainly vocal,
frustrated and angry with the Defendant in May 2024, it is the plaintiff who,
in fact, has been abused," the documents, filed in a Tennessee court on
Monday, stated. "Not only verbally and emotionally by the Defendant, but
PHYSICALLY abused by Defendant."
The filing also claims Firerose had accused
him of abuse in a previous filing "Only to sensationalize her false
complaints by using the word ‘abuse.’"
The "Achy Breaky Heart" singer repeatedly said he
"vehemently" denied all of his estranged wife’s accusations of abuse
in the filing.
Cyrus in May filed to have their marriage
annulled less than a year after their October wedding, citing
"inappropriate marital conduct."
Cyrus' team also shared a screenshot
of an alleged text Firerose sent to Cyrus, apologizing for an undisclosed
reason, writing, "I am so sorry" and "please give me a chance to
make this right. I can explain everything but I need you on my side."
Also included was a handwritten note
Firerose allegedly left at their home after he filed to end their marriage,
asking him to take her back. The note said in part: "I need you. I love
you. I am so sorry."
The 62-year-old claimed in the filing that
he only found out that Hodges wasn’t Firerose's "maiden name" after
they were married, accusing her of lying to him in order to marry him.
In the annulment filing, Cyrus' team said:
"Throughout the parties dating relationship, the Defendant repeatedly
asserted her maiden name was ‘Hodges’ and that Defendant had never been
married.
During this time, the Defendant repeatedly
asserted that Plaintiff was her soulmate and that the Defendant wanted
Plaintiff to be her one and only Husband. Accordingly, the Plaintiff trusted
the Defendant and falsely believed that she was an honest person."
It said that Firerose only married him "with the sole intention of
inducing Plaintiff into a marriage to obtain the name ‘Cyrus’ under the belief
it would help her fledgling music career."
Cyrus added in Monday's filing that he
believes there are "additional things in her background that she is hiding
from him," and claimed that she threatened to tell people that he decided
to divorce her because he was going to get a double mastectomy, which he
denied.
Firerose planned a preventative mastectomy
because she is a carrier for the BRCA1 gene mutation, increasing her chance of
being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Scott Adkins, Cyrus’ personal manager,
signed an affidavit in the filing, attesting that he had witnessed Firerose
abuse Cyrus.
"During my time of representing both
Mr. Cyrus and Firerose, I have personally witnessed Firerose speak
disrespectfully and acting out of control towards Mr. Cyrus," Adkins
wrote.
Cyrus added that he found her accusations of
abuse "mindboggling" and, called her "expectation" that
they would ever perform together again or be "involved in any way
professionally" in the future "comical."
In her counter-suit after Cyrus' annulment
filing, Firerose's legal team claimed: "Wife was the victim of extreme
verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse. Wife was subjected to Husband’s
persistent drug use accompanied with the consumption of marijuana which made
Husband unpredictable and volatile towards Wife."
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