“Really, my mom raised me.”

Miley Cyrusaddressed the state of her relationship with her parents after speculation surrounding a family rift.

She replied, “I mean, honestly, my mom is my hero.”

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“Really, my mom raised me."

“My father…” she trailed off.

“I’m grateful for, first, his genes.

My dad has great hair, and I got that.

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“I’m grateful for being able to watch him ahead of me.

He’s given me this map.

They can’t be weighed on the same scale, actually.”

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“More so than the way that I was raised,” Miley explained.

“Really, my mom raised me.”

David then said point blank, “There’s no estrangement here with your father.

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It’s just kinda the way things are played.”

Miley replied, “Yeah.

My parents served us and sacrificed so much for us.

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Anything we dreamed of, they made possible.”

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