She’s a teen idol, but Miley Cyrus has been less than Disney squeaky clean the last few years. And it’s starting to scare her dad. Billy Ray Cyrus, Miley’s father — both off camera and on, as he played her dad in “Hannah Montana” — spoke with GQ in a long interview, talking about his daughter’s frequent slipups (salvia smoking, pole dancing, numerous racy photos, amongst others) and saying that he’s been helpless to control them. Even if he’s getting blamed.
On before Miley turned 18:
“Every time something happened in Miley’s career, every time the train went off the track, if you will—Vanity Fair, pole-dancing, whatever scandal it was—her people, or as they say in today’s news, her handlers, every time they’d put me… ‘Somebody’s shooting at Miley! Put the old man up there!’ Well, I took it, because I’m her daddy, and that’s what daddies do. ‘Okay, nail me to the cross, I’ll take it. … All those people around, they used me every time. It became so obvious that, man, no matter what happens, they’re going to put you up there and let you take the bullet.”On not going to her 18th birthday party:
“You know why I didn’t go? Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up. Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, ‘Daddy endorsed this stuff…’ I started realizing I’m being used. If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that’s going on right now with the bong. They’d be hanging it on my ass. I had the common sense… I said, ‘This whole thing’s falling apart up there and they just want to blame all of this stuff on you again.’ I’m staying out of it.’On where he failed as a parent:
“How many interviews did I give and say, ‘You know what’s important between me and Miley is I try to be a friend to my kids’? I said it a lot. And sometimes I would even read other parents might say, ‘You don’t need to be a friend, you need to be a parent.’ Well, I’m the first guy to say to them right now: You were right.”On how it all started:
“Were it not for David Lynch. Miley would never have been Hannah Montana.”On teenagers being teenagers:
“I’ve done some stupid crap—I do stupid crap. We all do. But it’s different when you sit back and you see it happening to your little girl. I feel like I got to try. It’s my daughter. And some of these handlers are perhaps more interested in handling Miley’s money than her safety and her career.”On his family being attacked by Satan:
“I think we are right now. No doubt. There’s no doubt about it.”On if he regrets Hannah Montana:
“I hate to say it, but yes, I do. Yeah. I’d take it back in a second. For my family to be here and just be everybody okay, safe and sound and happy and normal, would have been fantastic. Heck, yeah. I’d erase it all in a second if I could.”
I blame Satan and David Lynch for the shit in my life, too, Billy Ray. Good call.
But seriously, cry me a river, Billy Ray. Especially when you’re flaunting a delicious Taco Party Pack from Taco Bell in the background. This asshat doesn’t know how good he’s got it!
Attacked below are pictures of his little sweetheart attending a Pre-Grammys Gala last Sunday:
