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 Might 2024.

PEOPLE Magazine received 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 have 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 rather a lot.”

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

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

Regardless of the preliminary sturdy 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.

Nonetheless, amid the problem, he received 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 harder?'”

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

Nonetheless, when Billy least anticipated it, Hurley confirmed up. He shared, “And on this second….a pal 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 traces of, “Hey, it seems to be like life could be a bit of bit powerful and simply needed you to know I am in your nook; you’ve got received a pal in your nook; you’ve got received a pal in your nook.”

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

He recalled, “Johnny mentioned, ‘Hey, you already know, simply keep in mind that all issues which can be good come from almighty God above and that stuff occurs, and in your case… the nice outweighs the unhealthy. 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 succeed in out to me in that second that perhaps I wanted most… this pal who made me giggle.”

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

He added, “When you can giggle collectively, you may make it via all the pieces.”