Tish Cyrus Says She Was ‘Self-Medicating’ During Billy Ray Cyrus Divorce: ‘Roughest Thing I’d Ever Gone Through’

Nearly four years after filing for divorce from Billy Ray Cyrus, Tish Cyrus is opening up the internal struggles she faced during their split.

The “Sorry We’re Cyrus” host spoke candidly about the tough time in her life on the Jan. 14 episode of “The Squeeze” podcast. “Anything that’s happened I’m kind of like, ‘Well that’s life, just keep it moving,’” Tish shared. “I’d been in this relationship since I was 23 or 24 so, again, I kept it moving.”

Tish, 58, revealed that the emotional toll of her marriage ending came on the heels of another devastating loss: her mother, Loretta Jean Palmer Finley, who passed away just two years before the divorce. “Two of the most tragic things in my life that happened—I did not process or even stop to really think about,” she admitted.

During this time, Tish turned to cannabis to cope with her grief over her mother and her relationship. “I’ve been very open that I was a major weed smoker. For that, because I’ve always had a little bit of anxiety, that was almost like medicine for me,” she said. She acknowledged that she was “self-medicating in some ways” and didn’t even realize it at the time.

When Tish quit smoking cannabis in 2024, the suppressed emotions she’d be...