Billy Ray Cyrus has opened up about some recent health battles he went through. He suffered vocal paralysis in 2024 after a near-fatal bout of sepsis.
Billy said, “as I was trying to stay alive, at times they sent me home from the hospital, and I’d be there with [my dog] Tommy Jack. My body was blowing up and there was a toxicity of some type or whatever.
If it would have erupted, I would have died. In the last moment, I had a prayer answered.”
Billy Ray said that he’d kneel at a prayer rock every day asking for a miracle. When he went to the hospital for one last surgery, he was told he was healed. It’s not clear what exactly he had.
He also mentioned that his daughter Noah’s song, “Don’t Put It All on Me”, saved his life. And his 5-year-old grandson helped him find the light in life by telling him to, “try again”.