
EXCLUSIVE: Y’all, buckle up because Tish Cyrus is finally spilling the TEA on the MESSY aftermath of ditching Billy Ray—and it is far more dramatic than anyone imagined!
Sources say Tish went through something closer to a complete SYSTEM MELTDOWN after ending that decades-long marriage. We’re not talking a little crying session, chile—we’re talking full-on inability to function!
Listen, Tish admitted on the Call Her Daddy podcast that losing her mom, Loretta Jean Palmer Finley, AND having her marriage ‘start falling apart’ back-to-back was TOO MUCH for her soul to handle.
She told Alex Cooper that her two BIGGEST fears—being alone and losing her mother—hit her almost simultaneously. Can you BELIEVE this?!
“I had one month of a complete psychological breakdown,” Tish confessed, painting a picture of PURE devastation. She couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t stop the tears—it was a NIGHTMARE.
But WAIT—it gets WORSE. Tish revealed she was trying to cope with this GRIEF and devastation by self-medicating, and the substance of choice? Weed. YES, MARIJUANA!
We’re told she was a “major weed smoker,” viewing it as her personal, homemade anxiety medicine. She was numb, keeping the pain buried deep, deep down.
Here’s the thing: Tish was married to Billy Ray since she was barely 24. That’s nearly 30 years of history—and she admitted she stayed with him out of FEAR of being alone!
“I just kind of pushed the mom thing under the rug and then the divorce thing came,” she explained, detailing the emotional dam that finally burst.
The SHOCKING part? Tish only stopped smoking the cannabis in 2024, and when she cleared her system, ALL that suppressed trauma CAME FLOODING BACK.
“I’m just in full-on anxiety to the point of not functioning,” she recalled from that terrible time, calling it the ROUGHEST thing she’d ever endured. That’s some serious testimony right there!
Remember, Tish and Billy Ray had already flirted with divorce in 2010 and 2013—but this final split was clearly the one that broke the camel’s back, even if she was trying to keep it moving.
She told The Squeeze podcast that she was just trying to “keep it moving” after the split, but clearly, her body and mind were screaming for a break!
So, what did Tish do once she realized she was living a lie fueled by weed and fear? She embraced the solitude, honey!
During COVID isolation, Tish took a “really good, hard look at life,” realizing her relationship with Billy Ray “had not been in a good place for a long time.”
Instead of panic, she found FREEDOM! She told listeners she spent her time “smoking pot and gardening and go skinny-dipping in my pool.”
That sounds like a TRANSFORMATIVE vacation to us, y’all! Suddenly, the weight of the world was off her shoulders, and she could finally BREATHE.
And THEN, just as she was finding her footing—and kicking the self-medication habit—she found hunky new husband Dominic Purcell! Talk about timing!
We’re told that Tish is “just now” learning how to cope healthily, proving that even the most put-together celebrity moms have deep, dark secrets about surviving heartbreak.
Don’t forget the irony: Miley Cyrus playfully called out her mom for encouraging her to “stay with the wrong guy,” adding another layer to this already thick family drama!
Go read the full details of Tish’s breakdown here: E! News details Tish’s weed use and how the emotions hit her after quitting.
And for the raw, unfiltered confession about the psychological breakdown, check out the Call Her Daddy breakdown: Cosmo reports on the breakdown.
This whole situation is a WARNING to all you stuck in dead-end relationships because you’re scared of being alone—Tish survived, but DAMN, the cost was HIGH!




