- Billy Ray Cyrus denies abandoning his wife before her double mastectomy.
- He claims the surgery date and circumstances are misrepresented.
- He asserts the surgery was elective, not medically necessary.
- Firerose allegedly threatened to ruin his career.
- Cyrus seeks to nullify the marriage citing marital misconduct.
Billy Ray Cyrus is firmly denying his estranged wife’s allegations that he left her just a day before her scheduled double mastectomy. According to Cyrus, the surgery was set for June 6 last year, not May 24 as Firerose claims. He also suggests that Firerose chose the date intentionally to damage his reputation by making it appear that their split was due to her surgery.
Cyrus alleges Firerose told him, ‘If you even think about divorcing me right now, I will tell everyone that you did it because of the double mastectomy and your career will be over.’ He further asserts that Firerose’s surgery was elective and not highly recommended by doctors, as she claims. He mentions that during their relationship, Firerose did not have cancer nor showed any early signs of it, and he only learned about her BRCA1 gene after they married.
Despite Firerose being a carrier of the BRCA1 gene linked to breast cancer, Cyrus believes she knew about this four years before they started dating. In his legal response, he refutes any allegations that he pressured her to postpone the surgery indefinitely or promised to cover any expenses not covered by insurance. This contradicts Firerose’s assertion that she expected him to finance the procedure, which left her scrambling for funds when he supposedly reneged on his promise.
This legal battle over their divorce is intensifying, with Cyrus previously rushing to court in May to annul the marriage on grounds of marital misconduct. The details of this misconduct were not initially clear, but the subsequent legal exchanges have shed more light on the contentious elements of their separation.
This divorce is turning increasingly contentious with serious allegations on both sides.
