Millions of fans grew up watching and her father, , on Disney’s Hannah Montana but there’s clearly love lost between the pair!

There have long been rumblings that there was trouble in paradise for the Cyrus family, but the drama came center stage when the “Wrecking Ball” artist seemingly snubbed her father when accepting her first Grammy in February 2024.

While Miley and Billy were once a heartwarming father-daughter duo both on and off screen, fans are curious why the pair are now feuding.

The first hints at an estrangement between the pair were noticed in 2013 when Billy Ray and then-wife filed for divorce. While the former married couple — who wed in 1993 — ended up reconciling at the time, when news broke that Billy made the first made the first move in court to end his marriage, the “Adore You” singer tweeted, “@billyraycyrus since your text and email obviously aren’t working would you like to talk like this?”

Billy Ray and Trish filed for divorce years later in April 2022, noting in the filing that they hadn’t lived together since February 2020.

Billy Ray moved on and got engaged to Australian singer in August 2022, meanwhile Trish tied the knot with Prison Break actor in August 2023.

While Miley was happy for her mom’s new love and was later there to attend her wedding, a source close to the “Last Song” actress told E! News in October 2022 that she didn’t feel the same way about her dad’s new chapter.

“She, of course, hopes he is happy but Miley has been closer to her mom Tish throughout the divorce,” the insider told the publication, adding that Miley didn’t “have a relationship” with her dad’s fiancée at the time.

The insider continued, “The divorce between her parents have put a strain on her relationship with her dad and it’s been hard to connect with him in the last year. She hopes they can eventually work on their relationship.”

Fans have also speculated that Miley may have taken issue with her father marrying someone who is not only three years older than she is, but who he met thanks to a Hannah Montana set visit.

Billy Ray and Firerose later tied the knot on October 10, 2023. However, the country singer later filed for divorce in May 2024, and their messy split was finalized in August 2024.

Miley and Billy Ray are seemingly estranged and she proved it by not including him in her first-ever Grammy’s acceptance speech.

The pop star was accompanied to the 2024 show by her mother and sister Brandi Cyrus, along with her boyfriend, Maxx Morando, and they were all mentioned when she won Record of the Year.

“I don’t think I forgot anyone,” Miley concluded in her speech as she walked off stage. “But I might have forgotten underwear. Bye!”

Despite the snub in February 2024, Miley denied that she and her father were on bad terms in an interview with The New York Times more than one year later. When asked if they were estranged, the pop star simply said, “No.”

“I think timing is everything,” she explained in her May 2025 interview. “As I’ve gotten older, I’m respecting my parents as individuals instead of as parents — because my mom really loved my dad for her whole life, and I think being married to someone in the music industry and not being a part of it is obviously really hard. And so I think I took on some of my mom’s hurt as my own because it hurt her more than it hurt me as an adult, and so I owned a lot of her pain.”

Miley also addressed her father’s romance with , which the couple debuted with a photo on Instagram on Easter 2025.

“Now that my mom is so in love with my stepdad, who I completely adore, and now that my dad, I see him finding happiness, too — I can love them both as individuals instead of as a parental pairing,” she said. “I’m being an adult about it.”

Miley continued, “At first it’s hard, because the little kid in you reacts before the adult in you can go, ‘Yes, that’s your dad, but that’s just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and to be happy.’ My child self has caught up.”