Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Billy Ray Cyrus: 'Hannah Montana' destroyed my family


Billy Ray Cyrus gave one of his most candid interviews in the new issue of GQ, telling the magazine that he wishes that the Disney show he and daughter Miley Cyrus starred in, "Hannah Montana," never happened. For my family to be here and just be OK, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic," he said in the interview.

Cyrus also took the time to set the record straight and distance himself from many other parents of child stars and revealed that he's never profited from Miley's success. "For the record, to set it straight, I want to tell you: I've never made a dime off of Miley. I'm proud to say to this day I've never made one commissioned dollar, or dime, off of my daughter."

Cyrus is not oblivious to his daughter's press disasters: the Vanity Fair photo shoot, the pole dancing incident, to name a couple. Those scandals are what led him to decide to not attend Miley's 18th birthday party, where Miley ultimately was photographed mid-makeout.

Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, 'Daddy endorsed this stuff. If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that's going on right now with the bong. They'd be hanging it on my ass.

To read the entire interview (one of the most revealing I've ever seen from the parent of a teen star), click here.