Miley Cyrus insisted she has "a lot of love" for her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, and denied they are estranged. The 'Flowers' hitmaker and her siblings have appeared to have divided loyalties with their parents since they divorced two years ago, but the 31-year-old singer has dismissed suggestions of a rift and explained she simply has different relationships with the country crooner and her mom Tish. During an appearance on 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman', Miley was asked about her relationship with her parents, with the host pondering: "Is it unlikely that both parents would share an equal role going through your life — where it's always going to be one or the other is closer as things evolve?" She replied: "It's really just not the closeness.
I think it's the capacity in which my mom was raised by a completely intact, beautiful family. Actually, my mom was adopted so my mom was chosen. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
"Her parents couldn't have children so they wanted her more than anything in the world. So my mom came in to this world being wanted and being loved and being given the most beautiful life. My grandmother spoiled not only her but me completely rotten.
My dad didn't have that. "The way my dad was raised, he grew up very poor in a very small town. His parents were divorced when he was very young.
"My dad had a pretty rough childhood and my childhood, really —I mean, we can go on an.
