Billy Ray Cyrus Addresses Leaked Audio of Argument With Estranged Wife Firerose: ‘I Was at My Wit’s End’ [Video]

Billy Ray Cyrus is speaking out after he was heard in an expletive-laced leaked audio scolding his estranged wife, Firerose (real name Johanna Rosie Hodges).

In a statement to ET, Billy Ray’s divorce lawyers, Rose Palermo and Jason Talley of Cheatham Palermo and Garrett, claim the “Achy Breaky Heart” singer’s estranged wife is the one who leaked the audio to the Daily Mail. 

“On behalf of our client, Billy Ray Cyrus, we wish to respond to Ms. Hodges recent release to the press in an apparent last-ditch effort to squeeze money out of Mr. Cyrus ahead of our court ordered mediation scheduled for next week,” the lawyers’ statement begins. “As we previously stated and released back in June, we regret that Ms. Hodges has chosen to litigate this 7-month marriage in the press and has left Mr. …