Tish Cyrus opened up about the traumatic phase of her life after divorcing Billy Ray Cyrus, shortly after the death of her mother, Loretta “Mammie” Finley.
In a recent appearance on The Knip podcast, Tish said that the events came so close together that she did not have time to properly process them.
“Two of the most probably tragic things that have happened in my life, I haven’t processed or even stopped to really think about them,” Tish told Tay Lautner.
Tish revealed that her mother died in 2020 “during COVID.” She explained how close Mammie was to the family.
“I was very close to my mother, and my kids were very close to my mother,” she said, adding that her mother lived with them while Miley Cyrus filmed Hannah Montana. “She was just a big part of our lives.”
She also talked about how close Mommy was to Miley. “She and Miley were really close. She would go on set with Miley and just my kids just adored her,” Tish said.
“When she passed away, not long after, my marriage started to fall apart.”
In 2024, Tish revealed in an interview with People that she was “terrified” of leaving her marriage: “I thought I would be alone forever,” she said at the time.
Now she described the phase to the podcast host as “incredibly tough… it was the toughest thing I’ve ever experienced.”
She dealt with her anxiety by smoking weed at the time.
Tish admitted that therapy helped her recovery. “When I started therapy, I really started talking about my life and about moving here and about my kids in the business, and what my life had been like, they said, ‘Wow,'” she added.
