Billy Ray’s Mystery Text From Elizabeth Hurley Sparked Romance

The nation singer’s revelations are coming after he and Hurley went Instagram official on Easter Sunday.

Billy confirmed his relationship with Hurley lower than a yr after he finalized his divorce from singer Firerose in Could 2024.

PEOPLE Magazine acquired an excerpt from Billy’s upcoming interview on Apple Music Nation’s “The Ty Bentli Show,” the place he dished on his romance with the “Austin Powers” actress.

Billy revealed that they met whereas filming the 2022 film, “Christmas in Paradise,” on the Caribbean island of Nevis.

On the time, Billy had simply separated from his ex-wife Tish, with whom he shares daughters Miley Cyrus, Noah Cyrus, and Brandi Cyrus, and sons Hint and Braison Cyrus.

Billy shared of his first assembly with Hurley, “We did only a few scenes collectively however the couple instances we had been in the identical scene there was a chemistry there.”

He added, “We simply laughed, and it was at a time I wasn’t laughing quite a bit.”

The “Phrases by Coronary heart” crooner elaborated on the extraordinary features of his first assembly with Hurley.

He mentioned, “The oddest half was first, how a lot we laughed. Second, I figured we had been so totally different however in some very unusual approach we had far more in frequent than we had totally different.”

Regardless of the preliminary robust connection they felt, Billy and Hurley would go two years with out talking to one another after filming “Christmas in Paradise.”

Along with their lack of communication, Billy discovered himself in a troublesome section of life.

Nevertheless, amid the problem, he acquired a message from somebody he wasn’t anticipating.

The 63-year-old opened up about his troublesome interval on the time, noting, “I felt like, ‘Wow, can life get any tougher? Can it get any more durable?'”

He continued, “For me, at a sure level it was like, you’ll be able to’t get knocked down any flatter than laying in your again when life is kicking you.”

Nevertheless, when Billy least anticipated it, Hurley confirmed up. He shared, “And on this second….a buddy reached out.”

Billy disclosed that he did not know the variety of the one that despatched him the textual content message.”

He additionally revealed the message’s content material, noting that it was alongside the strains of, “Hey, it seems to be like life may be just a little bit robust and simply needed you to know I am in your nook; you have acquired a buddy in your nook; you have acquired a buddy in your nook.”

The “Achy Breaky Coronary heart” crooner in contrast the message to a heartfelt notice he as soon as acquired from Johnny Money again in 1992, “after I was taking a little bit of a pounding from the critics.”

He recalled, “Johnny mentioned, ‘Hey, , simply keep in mind that all issues which are good come from almighty God above and that stuff occurs, and in your case… the nice outweighs the dangerous. Let ‘em have it. I am in your nook.'”

Reflecting on the message from Hurley, Billy mentioned it reminded him “a little bit of what Johnny had written me at my lowest level.”

He continued, “So, I textual content again, I’m going, ‘Who is that this?’ And it is like, ‘Elizabeth Hurley.’ Of all of the individuals to achieve out to me in that second that possibly I wanted most… this buddy who made me chuckle.”

Billy Ray Cyrus described Hurley as “a terrific human being” and shared in-depth particulars about their bond, noting, “If all we ever had been [is] the chums that we’re, I’d take that. She’s so impressively sensible. She jogs my memory a variety of Dolly Parton. She’s a really sensible businesswoman.”

He added, “In case you can chuckle collectively, you may make it by the whole lot.”