The 'Achy Breaky Heart' singer lost his ability to sing and speak after suffering from a bout of sepsis in 2024.
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - MARCH 07: Billy Ray Cyrus attends the 24th annual Keep Memory Alive 'Power of Love Gala' benefit for the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health at MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 07, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 12: Billy Ray Cyrus poses inside the Winners Room at The Olivier Awards 2026 with Cunard at the Royal Albert Hall on April 12, 2026 in London, England. In 2024, the country singer “got really sick and almost died” from health complications related to sepsis.
"And as I was trying to stay alive, at times they sent me home from the hospital, and I'd be there with Tommy Jack. But my body was blowing up. And there was a toxicity of some type of whatever. And it would have erupted, I would have died,” he told Cyrus credits prayer to help him pull through, concentrating on a “prayer rock” he visited multiple times a day.
"I would go put my knee on there and say, 'God, please. I need a miracle. I need a miracle.
' Tommy Jack would be sitting there with me going, 'He needs a miracle. He needs a miracle,'" Cyrus said.
"Lo and behold, they were going to do one last surgery. I got to the hospital, they said, 'Mr. Cyrus, get your . It's gone.
' It healed. I had a miracle.
" After the sepsis battle, Cyrus faced another challenge: a vocal paralysis diagnosis that left him physically unable to sing or truly talk.
“I’ve been stricken with a disease and I have no voice. I can’t talk,” he told the outlet.
“I start believing, once I had the first miracle, I said, 'Cyrus, you can’t talk or sing now, but believe you can. Believe you can.
'" Apart from prayer, Cyrus said he was “leaning into” listening to his daughter Noah Cyrus’ song “Don’t Put It All On Me,” which his son Braison had written. "I just love it so much. I do credit that particular song with saving me. It’s part of it, for sure,” he said.
INDIO, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 24: Braison Cyrus, Noah Cyrus and Billy Ray Cyrus pose for a portrait backstage during the 2026 Stagecoach Festival at Empire Polo Club on April 24, 2026 in Indio, California. "In this very broken moment of my life, my little grandson Bear looked at me and said, ‘Try again.
' And up until that moment, he had never spoken to me at all. I wasn't even sure if he knew my name," the 64-year-old said.
"In that moment I thought, ‘He's telling you something. ' Is it about love? Music? Somehow, I got to try again at both.
So I'm learning to try again.
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