Billy Ray Cyrus told GQ that Hannah Montana destroyed his family and he regrets letting Miley Cyrus do the show. In retaliation, Miley forced Billy Ray to cancel an interview on The View.
“When Miley found out her father was scheduled to appear on ‘The View’ on Wednesday she went nuts,” a family friend tells me. “Only last week, Billy shot his mouth off in GQ, and now he planned to sit down with [Barbara and Whoopi] and talk more crap about his family. No way would Miley or her team let that happen.”
“At first Miley defended her dad, wanting to believe he had been tricked into saying bad things by the magazine,” an insider with knowledge of situation tells me. “Miley truly wanted to give her father the benefit of the doubt, goodness knows she’s said things she wishes she could take back. But after she found out about his media trip to New York, no more excuses could be made.”
In all fairness, when you see your daughter do stuff like this, this and this, you can’t help but schedule an interview with Barbara Walters and company to publicly air out your family’s dirty laundry. That’s what I did when my mom grounded me once. I went to the local paper and whined about it.