Monday, July 1, 2024 -Country singer, Firerose has opened up about her past relationship with Billy Ray Cyrus amid their ongoing divorce battle.
The 36-year-old singer said in an
interview with Page Six, said Cyrus had 'strict rules' for her when they
were together.
She alleged that the Achy Breaky
Heart hitmaker, 62, constantly screamed at her and made her feel like a
'prisoner' at their Tennessee home during their marriage.
The Australian singer also claimed to
the publication that Cyrus was an 'evil man' and detailed her own claims of
domestic abuse during the two years they were together and seven months they
were married.
After he claimed she had 'physically,
emotionally and verbally abused him,' she opened up about how she claimed he
'isolated' her from her friends and family and attempted to control her.
'Billy had very strict rules,' she
elaborated. 'I didn't have a car. I was only allowed to go to the local
chiropractor and allowed once a month to get my nails done.'
Firerose, an Australian singer whose name
is Johanna Rose Hodges — called it 'systemic isolation' and added: 'I couldn't
find the courage to leave.'
She also claimed that her friends and
family were banned from visiting her at home.
Cyrus' estranged wife added: 'If I had to
send a text, I had to read it out to him for permission. It was the same for
email.'
In court documents filed in Tennessee last
week, Cyrus denied the 'mindboggling' allegations of abuse towards her and
claimed in their explosive divorce battle that she was after his money and
abused him.
He also denied 'abandoning her' on May 23
when he filed for divorce and the day her double mastectomy was scheduled.
She previously said he kicked her out
of their Tennessee home on the same day she was scheduled to undergo a double
mastectomy.
She explained that she had recently
been diagnosed with the BRCA1 gene mutation and faces a high risk of developing
breast cancer.
However, she was unable to get the surgery.
'When Billy decided to discard me it was
[in] a brutal way,' she shared. 'I would never treat another human being so
cruelly.'
Since then, the former couple have been entangled in a bitter legal battle, which she called 'excruciatingly painful.'
'This is a smear campaign by the person I
was deeply in love with for four years and in a relationship with and who has
decided to wage full blown war against me,' she said.
Firerose also claimed the amount of stress
he put on her caused her to pass out two days before their wedding last
October.
She said that at that time, she was taken
to the hospital shortly before they were set to tie the knot.
Firerose also claimed that Cyrus would give
her the silent treatment for hours or days at a time.
As a result, she said she 'withdrew'
and became 'afraid to talk.'
She also told the outlet about how
their relationship overlapped with his former marriage to Tish Cyrus, which she
claimed to not have any knowledge of as he told her he had already filed for
divorce.
This comes shortly after one of
Cyrus' divorce-related court filings alleged publicized a note Firerose
allegedly left him after leaving the home they previously shared.
In the letter seeking reconciliation, she
reportedly wrote that she was 'so sorry' and asked for 'a chance to make this
right.'
Firerose did not deny writing the
note and told Page Six: 'He's attempting to use my loving notes as proof
that he could not have been abusing me because I love him.
'But it's because you love them that
you tolerate this behavior.'
'I think he will use every single thing
against me,' she added, after mentioning she experienced some 'very dark years'
in her 20s that led her to becoming sober.
She suggested he had full knowledge
of that part of her past and would weaponize it against her in their ongoing
divorce battle.
'He's an evil man,' she continued.
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