Last October, Billy Ray Cyrus and Tish Finley announced they were divorcing. It’s been chaos ever since, and the tabloids have been going over every dirty detail they could find about Billy Ray, Tish and Miley. Allegedly, Billy Ray was mad because Tish was maybe screwing around on him with Bret Michaels (and maybe somebody else too). There were fights about money. The other Cyrus children were “acting out” and Miley was videotaped smoking a bong. Then, last month, The Mullet sat down for an exhaustive and comprehensive interview with GQ Magazine (go here for our coverage) – he blamed himself for his family’s demise, he said he basically sold his kid to Disney, he talked about his failings as a man, and he made it sound like Miley wasn’t even speaking to him anymore. After that, things simmered down. Miley forced her dad to cancel some media appearances and The Mullet stopped talking so much. And now there’s another chapter to this ongoing mullet-y saga: Billy Ray is “dropping” the divorce!

How do you mend an achy breaky heart? Billy Ray Cyrus says he’s doing everything he can.

“I’ve dropped the divorce,” Cyrus, 49, said during an interview on The View scheduled to air on Friday. “I want to put my family back together … Things are the best they’ve ever been.”

“I feel like I got my Miley back,” he added during Thursday’s taping. “I feel like we’re the daddy and daughter we were before Hannah Montana.”

But the last few months have not been easy for Cyrus.

In October, he and wife Tish issued a joint statement announcing plans to end their 17-year marriage. A few months later, a startling video went viral of the couple’s daughter, Miley, smoking natural herb salvia out of a bong.

Then, in an unguarded interview with GQ, he blamed Hannah Montana for “destroying my family,” and said he felt Miley surrounded herself with people who put her “in a great deal of danger.”

At the time, Billy Ray also told PEOPLE he was doing everything he could to find family unity again, saying in an exclusive statement, “It is very important to me to work on mending my family right now.”

Even now, Cyrus still maintains his family would be in a better place if Miley didn’t become a celebrity.

“Hannah Montana didn’t ruin my family,” he said during the View taping Thursday. “Fame did.”

“Sometimes when you get in this ride,” he said, “you feel like you’re strapped to a rocket.”

[From People]

Do you buy this contrition? Is that even what The Mullet is aiming for? I do think The Mullet was emotionally blackmailing Tish and Miley with that GQ interview – he was letting them know that he wasn’t just going to fade away quietly, that if he was going, he was taking them with him. Well, he got what he wanted. Miley is now speaking to him again, and Tish must be gritting her teeth through this reconciliation. Ten bucks says that even though the divorce is being “dropped” that Tish and The Mullet still live in separate homes.

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