Tish Cyrus opened up about the traumatic phase of life after divorce from Billy Ray Cyrus shortly after the death of her mother, Loretta “Mammie” Finley.
During a recent appearance on Compression podcast, Tish said the events were so close together that she didn’t have time to process them properly.
“Two of the most tragic things that happened in my life, I didn’t like to process or even stop to really think about,” Tish told Tay Lautner.
Tish revealed that her mother died in 2020 “during COVID.” She explained how Mammie was close to the family.
“I was very close to my mother and my children were very close to my mother,” she said, adding that her mother lived with them while Miley Cyrus was filming Hannah Montana. “She was just an integral part of our lives.”
She also shared how close Mammie was to Miley. “She and Miley were very close. She would go on set with Miley and my kids loved her,” Tish said.
“When she died, not long after, my marriage started to fall apart.”
In 2024, Tish revealed in an interview with People that she was “terrified” of leaving her marriage, “I thought I was going to be alone forever,” she said at the time.
Now, she described the phase to the podcast host as “really difficult… it was the hardest thing I’ve ever been through.”
At the time, she dealt with her anxiety by smoking weed.
Tish admitted that therapy helped her recovery. “When I started therapy and really started talking about my life and moving here and my kids in the business and what my life had been like, they were like, ‘Wow,'” she added.
