Billy Ray Cyrus Gushes Over Miley Cyrus After Estrangement

Billy Ray Cyrus shared his pride for daughter Miley Cyrus one month after she confirmed the pair have put their long-running estrangement behind them.

Billy Ray, 63, took to Instagram on Sunday, June 1, to praise Miley, 32, sharing his daughter’s Instagram Story of the music video for her new track “Easy Lover.”

The “Achy Breaky Heart” singer wrote over the clip, “So proud of you Mile!!!” before tagging her and adding colored heart stickers to the post.

The proud father also commented on Miley’s earlier Instagram grid promotion of the track, off her new album Something Beautiful, leaving three blazing heart emojis on his daughter’s post and liking it.

The PDA comes after Miley revealed where she currently stands with Billy Ray in a May 10 Instagram Story statement. “My dad and I have had our challenges over the years,” Miley wrote in the statement. “Now, in my 30s, family is my priority above all else. I’m at peace knowing bridges have been built and time has done a lot of healing.”

Hours prior to Miley’s statement, Billy Ray posted a photo of himself with Miley and son Braison, 31, as well as Miley’s boyfriend, Maxx Marando. (Cyrus is father to five children — Miley, Braison, Noah Cyrus, 25, Brandi Cyrus, 38, and Trace Cyrus, 36 — with whom he shares with ex-wife Tish Cyrus, as well as Christopher Cyrus, 33, with whom he shares with ex Kristin Luckey.)

More recently, Miley expanded on the family’s reconnection during an interview for The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast, released on Saturday, May 31. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents as individuals instead of as parents — because my mom’s really loved my dad for her whole life, and I think being married to someone in the music industry and not being a part of it is obviously really hard,” she said. “I think I took on some of my mom’s hurt as my own because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult, and so I owned a lot of her pain.”

In the years that followed the divorce of Tish, 58, and Billy Ray, the Cyrus family fractured with Miley remaining close to her mom and supporting her stepfather, Dominic Purcell. “I think timing is everything,” Miley said, adding that she is glad both of her parents have both moved on given Billy Ray’s budding relationship with Elizabeth Hurley. “Now that my mom is so in love with my stepdad, who I completely adore, and now that my dad, I see him finding happiness, too — I can love them both as individuals instead of as a parental pairing. I’m being an adult about it.”

Miley continued, “At first it’s hard, because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy.’ My child self has caught up.”

Tish and Miley’s relationship was put under the microscope after it was reported that Tish allegedly unfollowed Miley on social media. Us Weekly confirmed on May 8 that Tish began following her online that day.