When Miley Cyrus signed on to appear in David Letterman’s Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, she had to know the show would eventually touch on the reported rifts that have emerged within the Cyrus family. And while her appearance covered way more than just that, the pop legend did sound off on her parents, whom she said “can’t be weighed on the same scale” when it comes to which of them might have impacted her life more.
The family first ruptured two years ago when Miley’s parents—her mother Tish Cyrus and her country star father Billy Ray Cyrus—separated. Things only got messier from there, and last year at the 2023 Grammy Awards, fans noticed that Miley did not thank her father in her acceptance speech. When asked by Letterman to confirm there’s no estrangement between her and her father, however, Miley offered a breezy, very diplomatic answer.
“Yeah,” the singer said in this week’s My Next Guest, “I think what is so beautiful is that my parents, they served their children, and I know this. My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us. Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”
