Billy Ray Cyrus is speaking out after he was heard in an expletive-laced leaked audio scolding his estranged wife, Firerose (real name Johanna Rosie Hodges). In a statement to ET, Billy Ray's divorce lawyers, Rose Palermo and Jason Talley of Cheatham Palermo and Garrett, claim the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer's estranged wife is the one who leaked the audio to the Daily Mail . "On behalf of our client, Billy Ray Cyrus, we wish to respond to Ms.
Hodges recent release to the press in an apparent last-ditch effort to squeeze money out of Mr. Cyrus ahead of our court ordered mediation scheduled for next week," the lawyers' statement begins. "As we previously stated and released back in June, we regret that Ms.
Hodges has chosen to litigate this 7-month marriage in the press and has left Mr. Cyrus with no recourse but to set the record straight, once again. Mr.
Cyrus previously admitted in a court filing that he had been very vocally frustrated and angry with Ms. Hodges during their 7-month marriage as he began to uncover more and more of Ms. Hodges true motives for marrying him.
" As for the leaked audio, Billy Ray's attorneys claim Firerose "is the person who made the recording without telling Mr. Cyrus that she was recording him. Of course, she was intentionally on her best behavior since she knew the recording was being made.
If Mr. Cyrus was truly the person that Ms. Hodges desires the court of public opinion to believe with the release of her one-sided recording, then it is min.