Billy Ray Cyrus opens up to GQ for the March 2011 issue and takes Hollywood & the Disney marketing machine to task.
Cyrus feels that the success of Hannah Montana “destroyed” his family and takes a swing at the Disney handlers saying they “used” him to take the hits any time his daughter Miley Cyrus, caused controversy:
“Every time something happened in Miley’s career, every time the train went off the track, if you will—Vanity Fair, pole-dancing, whatever scandal it was—her people, or as they say in today’s news, her handlers, every time they’d put me… ‘Somebody’s shooting at Miley! Put the old man up there!’ Well, I took it, because I’m her daddy, and that’s what daddies do. ‘Okay, nail me to the cross, I’ll take it….’ ”
He goes on to say: “All those people around, they used me every time. It became so obvious that, man, no matter what happens, they’re going to put you up there and let you take the bullet.”
After all this, he began to say no to participating in the Miley marketing machine and opted not to go to her 18th birthday party held in a bar in Los Angeles.
“You know why I didn’t go? Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up. Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, ‘Daddy endorsed this stuff….’ I started realizing I’m being used. If I would have went out there I would have been right in the middle of all this stuff that’s going on right now with the bong. They’d be hanging it on my ass. I had the common sense… I said, ‘This whole thing’s falling apart up there and they just want to blame all of this stuff on you again.’ I’m staying out of it.”
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