Miley Cyrus has not always had a smooth relationship with her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, 64. But the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer and his daughter, the "Flowers" singer, seem to have evidently patched things up now. In fact, the pair had a sweet moment on the new Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special on Disney+. He was Hannah's father on the show.
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Miley shared with podcaster Alex Cooper of Call Her Daddy during the program that Hannah Montana was very meaningful to her family. Per People, She said, "I don't know if our reality would be the same without the show, for better or for worse. No family really gets to experience what we had."
Billy Ray Cyrus Was There for the 'Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special' Taping
Miley, 33, confirmed that the public feels reassured when she and her father are on friendly terms. Furthermore, she also confided this to Alex Cooper. "I'm really excited for him to be here because I know how much our relationship means to everyone that watched the show. I think that when me and my dad are good, people, they feel better." Additionally, she mentioned, "It just feels good when the Cyruses are getting along."
Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus engaged in some casual banter on the show. She quipped, "Every detail is as it was — except for you and me." For his part, Billy Ray stated that another actor who tried out for the role of Hannah's dad should have landed it, not him. Miley teased him, ""You were always the guy trying to give the other guy the job. Well, I'm glad you were the dad."
Things Were Not Always Rosy in the Cyrus Family
In 2025, Miley spoke frankly on Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky about the sometimes raw state of her family's relationships. She did not mince words or put a falsely pleasant spin on it.
Miley admitted, "My family and I have had a really difficult... What did you call your decade? Dark decade. Yeah, we had one of those. Half of us weren't speaking to each other at one point, and we cleaned all that up. That was a really important part of my year this year, was all of my family putting those lines of communication back together. A lot because of, you know, I had a lot of loyalty to my mom the way that families do when parents get divorced."
She also realized the peril of letting grievances fester long-term. "I watched what happens when you don't clean things up as they're happening. They really do stack, and then all of a sudden you go, 'Oh my God, it's been 10 years, and this is a mess that I barely even know how to start. This is like emotional hoarding.'"
