Billy Ray Cyrus claims his wife Firerose physically abused him in the latest Salvo divorce case

In the midst of a nasty divorce case, Billy Ray Cyrus now claims in new court filings that he was physically, verbally and emotionally abused by his soon-to-be ex-wife Firerose.

A week after Firerose (Johanna Rose Hodges) accused Cyrus of “psychological abuse” during their short-lived marriage, the singer responded with his own deposition on Monday — not only “vehemently” denying her claims, but leveling the his own allegations of abusive behavior. behavior against his estranged wife.

“The defendant's allegations of abuse were made only to sensationalize her false allegations by using the word abuse,” Cyrus' lawyers wrote. “While the plaintiff would acknowledge that he was certainly vocal, frustrated and angry with the defendant in May 2024, it is the plaintiff who was, in fact, abused. Not only verbally and emotionally from the accused, but PHYSICALLY.”

Cyrus filed for divorce on May 22, citing “irreconcilable differences” and “marital misconduct.” The couple, who first started dating in 2022 after years of dating, were only married for 7 months before splitting.

Since then, the process has taken a turn for the worse. In a June 13 filing, Cyrus filed an emergency motion accusing Firerose of nearly $100,000 in unauthorized “fraudulent” credit card charges and asking for a temporary restraining order to stop her. Her lawyers later said the allegations were “untrue”.

Then, in a June 14 response to the complaint, Firerose claimed she was “a victim of extreme verbal, emotional and psychological abuse. He claimed that Cyrus was “unpredictable and unstable” due to substance abuse and had filed for divorce just one day before her scheduled preventive double mastectomy.

In his response on Monday, Cyrus claimed that Firerose had scheduled the “elective” surgery as part of an ongoing threat to use the surgery to “destroy his long-term career in the entertainment industry” if he chooses to file for divorce. She claims that at one point she made the threat outright, saying, “If you're even thinking about getting a divorce right now, I'm going to tell everyone you did it because of the double mastectomy and your career will be over.”

A lawyer for Firerose did not immediately return a request for comment.