Tish Cyrus: Billy Ray Cyrus divorce caused ‘psychological breakdown’

Tish Cyrus said she waited years to divorce Billy Ray Cyrus — despite the ex-couple's tumultuous marriage — because she has a "fear of being alone."

Tish Cyrus, the mother of pop star Miley Cyrus, dished out plenty of dirt about her divorce from ex-husband Billy Ray Cyrus during an appearance on the popular podcast Call Her Daddy. 

In the podcast episode, released Wednesday, Tish, 56, appeared alongside her daughter Brandi Cyrus, 36.

At one point in the over-one-hour conversation, Tish talked about how challenging it was to divorce musician Billy Ray in 2022. The pair had a tumultuous marriage — and had earlier filed to divorce one another on separate occasions — but Tish said she for years stayed in the marriage over a “fear of being alone.”

Though she said she decided to leave Billy Ray in 2020, the death of her mother worsened her loneliness fears, and she did not file for divorce until two years later.

“It was so crazy because, honestly, my two biggest fears in life were always being alone and my mom passing away,” Tish said. “I was like, ‘I just don’t know if I’ll survive when my mom dies. I had one month of, honestly, a complete psychological breakdown.”

She revealed she’d even asked celebrity psychiatrist Daniel Amen to send her to a mental hospital, though he did not think it would be “the best thing for either of us,” according to Tish.

Tish said she weighed about 103 pounds and could not eat, sleep or stop crying during her month-long breakdown.

“I don’t have my mom, and then I don’t have my husband that’s been my husband for 30 years. Like, holy crap, I’m scared,” she recalled.