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Miley Cyrus is openly discussing the complex relationship she shares with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus. In a recent interview on David Letterman's Netflix series "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction," the Grammy-winning "Flowers" singer talked about the valuable lessons she has learned, both positive and negative, from Billy Ray. "He has a relationship and a foot on the ground to the real and to nature and he always did, even when he was super famous," remarked Miley, aged 31, about her father, who achieved stardom in country music with his 1992 hit "Achy Breaky Heart.

" "I'm grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me. He's almost given me this map. And there's a map of what to do and what not to do, and he's guided me on both.



" "I also inherited the narcissism from my father," she mentioned during the interview. When asked to compare how her parents influenced her current successes, Miley emphasized their differences, telling the talk show host that “they can't be weighed on the same scale, actually." "Without my dad, I know — I mean, not just literally I wouldn't be sitting in this chair, I wouldn't exist — but I would not, who I am as a person, it wouldn't exist.

Because my dad, as a creative and as an artist in the way that his brain works, has always made me feel safer in my own mind because we're very similar in our ideas," she added. "So I think a lot of his perspective on reality and on life, I've inherited from him, more so than the way that I was raised �.

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