While Firerose did not get any money up front from her former husband, Billy Ray has agreed to hand over his claims to credits and royalties from any songs they wrote and published together.
According to the outlet, Firerose – born Johanna Rose Hodges – changed her name to Cyrus.
Billy Ray reportedly believes she only married him for his last name.
“This has been absolutely the most crazy insane scam I have ever heard of. Let alone the fact I’m right in the center and basically the target of the scheme,” the Achy Breaky Heart singer said in a statement via his attorneys to TMZ.
“It’s unfortunate it played out this way. Not only was it a web of lies that put me in physical danger, it was a matter of the heart. Love is blind, that’s for sure.”
AGGRESSIVE AUDIO
Billy and Firerose’s split was ugly from the onset, but things between them got especially heated in July when audio believed to be of the Some Gave All singer berating his estranged wife was leaked.
“No, you didn’t. You can still leave and get there in time,” Firerose responded.
In the audio, the man thought to be Billy Ray appeared to shout at Firerose, “Shut the f**k up,” and called her a “f**king selfish b***h.”
“If you had just left it the f**k alone, now I’m really f**king p***ed , once again showing you will not listen,” the male voice went on.
He continued, “I don’t think you’re real smart, I’ve changed my mind on that s**t. That I think you are is a selfish f**king b***h. That’s what you are.”
“Please stop screaming at me,” the voice believed to be Firerose begged at one point.
“What a dumb ass [you are] … ’cause you have to know I will not tolerate that s**t. You just f**ked up…f**k you. You know better than that. F**king idiot,” the male voice added.
Billy Ray released a statement after the fact, addressing the leak.
“Hell yeah, I was at my wit’s end. As every day went by, I started realizing something was wrong. And that’s before I knew she was a fraud,” he said in his statement posted to his Instagram Story and via his rep.
“I just knew something wasn’t right. That was before I knew she was David Hodges’ ex-wife. That’s before I knew her parents’ last name,” he added.
The musician claimed, “everything I thought I knew about her, was a lie,” and alleged that Firerose “was trying to take over my career, my life and usurp the Cyrus name for her own gain.”
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