Sad Details About The Cyrus Family [ Part 2 ]

Miley Cyrus had a near-death experience

The ups and downs of family life and the entertainment industry aren’t the only things Miley Cyrus has had to contend with in her life. While, on her way to securing another major career milestone — her first performance at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival in 2019 — she had a terrifying experience.

When traveling with her older sister, Brandi, their mom, and her music team, their plane almost crashed while trying to land. “Out of nowhere, as we’re landing, we swoop back up and like bang to the left and turn. It feels crazy,” Brandi revealed on her podcast “Your Favorite Things.”

As nervous fliers, Miley and Tish were freaking out. “And even though I’m scared, I was like, ‘Someone has to be level-headed here’ … so, Miley’s in my lap, my mom’s holding my hand across the aisle … and no one is telling us what’s going on,” she recalled.

When the plane returned to high alтιтude, they were told they had to divert to avoid another plane that was in their lane for landing. Lightning doesn’t usually strike twice, but when they tried to land a second time, the same thing happened again and the family was left feeling terrified about their fate. On the third attempt, they were able to land safely. And, even after such a terrifying near-death experience, Miley Cyrus once again proved how strong she is by going on to rock her Glasto performance.

Braison Cyrus almost died when he was 18

The second-youngest member of the Cyrus clan is Braison Cyrus, who was born two years after Miley Cyrus in 1994. Like his sister, he had a pretty terrifying near-death experience after some unexpected health complications when he was 18. The “Heels” actor underwent a routine tonsillectomy, after which he was sent home. But Cyrus ended up in the hospital after just a few days. “He woke himself up because he felt something running down his throat. He sat up and started spewing blood out of his mouth,” his mom Trish Cyrus told E! News.

The momager raced her son to the hospital, but it was a while before he was out of danger. “I got in there and you could see the nurses and doctors in the emergency room were alarmed,” she explained, noting that they were struggling to get the bleeding under control. “He was choking on his own blood! It was so traumatizing,” she said. As a result, Braison Cyrus was taken to the theater for an operation to repair the bleeding artery.

Reflecting on the ordeal, Trish Cyrus said: “People do die from bleeding to death. If I had not gotten Braison to the hospital, it terrifies me to think what would have happened.” She added that her son was traumatized from the experience and struggled with his mental health while recovering at home.

Hannah Montana destroyed their family

“Hannah Montana” came at a cost for the Cyrus family, particularly the show’s star Miley Cyrus, who sacrificed her childhood for it. Her unparalleled success and millions of adoring fans made up for that, but the best part was getting to work with her dad every day … until it wasn’t. After a few seasons, things weren’t working. “The business was driving a wedge between us,” Billy Ray Cyrus admitted to GQ in 2011.

During his first split with Tish, the Cyrus family was fractured, and the father of six blamed the Disney show for causing so much destruction. Although the final season scored an impressive 80% on Rotten Tomatoes,  Billy Ray said it was the worst one yet.

“It was a disaster. I was going to work every single day knowing that my family had fallen apart, but yet I had to sit in front of that camera. I look back and I go, ‘How did I ever make it through that?'” he said.

When the series ended, the country music star expressed worrying concerns over his daughter’s safety. She’d graduated straight from the show into adulthood and celebrated her 18th birthday by partying with a bong. And the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer, who didn’t go to his daughter’s birthday party, was worried this was just going to get worse.

Miley Cyrus struggled to transition from child star to adult while in the spotlight

Miley Cyrus isn’t the first star to have struggled with the end of their TV show. Jodie Sweetin turned to drugs and alcohol after “Full House,” while Ariel Winter struggled with her sense of idenтιтy after “Modern Family” ended its 11-year run. Similarly, Miley Cyrus struggled with feelings of being forgotten and unloved once she took off Hannah’s blonde wig.

“[I was that] character almost as often as I was myself,” she said on the “Rock This with Allison Hagendorf” podcast. “When you have this alter ego, you’re valuable.

You’ve got, like, millions of fans, you’re the biggest star in the world, and then the concept was that when I looked like myself, when I didn’t have the wig on anymore, no one cared about me, I wasn’t a star anymore.”

As Cyrus worried she couldn’t live up to the success of “Hannah Montana,” the character cast a shadow over the next few years of her life. She partied hard and tried to shed her good-girl, perfect-daughter image that had been curated for her on the Disney Channel show. It wasn’t until her album 2013 “Bangerz” that she was able to start finding out who she was without the show through her music. Although this came with a lot of new tattoos and twerking, it helped her discover who she was after the Disney Channel.

Billy Ray Cyrus wished he’d been a better dad

When his kids were growing up, Billy Ray Cyrus prided himself on his parenting style: being friends with his kids rather than a strict parent. It wasn’t until 2011 that he started to consider that his parenting style might have failed him. When his daughter Miley started partying, he told GQ, “I should have been a better parent. I should have said, ‘Enough is enough — it’s getting dangerous and somebody’s going to get hurt.’ I should have, but I didn’t.”

But Miley isn’t the only one of his kids he wished he’d been a better parent for. The country star has also struggled with his relationship with her older brother, Christopher Cody Cyrus, who grew up in South Carolina with his mom. The father and son didn’t enjoy a particularly close relationship while he was growing up.

In 2009, Christopher’s mom Kristin Luckey told The Mirror that Billy Ray’s relationship with his son was virtually non-existent. “Chris reaches out to have a relationship, but it’s been months since they engaged,” she revealed. However, Billy Ray allegedly regrets not being a bigger part of his son’s life, telling ABC News that in a perfect world, Christopher would have grown up living with his siblings in Tennessee. “But as we all know, it ain’t a perfect world,” he added.

Hannah Montana was the source of even more problems for Miley Cyrus

“Hannah Montana” left Miley Cyrus in complete turmoil about her idenтιтy without the TV persona she and Disney created. But that wasn’t her only difficult parting gift from the show. She told Marie Claire that the show promoted unrealistic beauty standards which led to body dysmorphia and anxiety. “I was told for so long what a girl is supposed to be from being on that show. I was made to look like someone that I wasn’t, which probably caused some body dysmorphia because I had been made pretty every day for so long, and then when I wasn’t on that show, it was like, Who the f**k am I?” Cyrus admitted.

Around the same time, she began to suffer from anxiety. The attacks would come on before shows, making her feel so unwell she’d often have to cancel. It kept getting worse; the anxiety would feed itself. “You get in this hole that seems like you’re never going to be able to get out of,” she said.

Although she continued performing, Miley Cyrus’ anxiety never went away. She opened up about it to fans at a 2022 concert, asking, “Have you ever felt very anxious for no apparent reason and very insecure? I feel like that now and I don’t know why, I was afraid because I felt alone” (via Twitter). She hoped by sharing her experience, she could help herself and others feel less alone.