Billy Ray Cyrus Blames 'Hannah Montana' for Family Problems 
 
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 In a lengthy profile, Cyrus told reporter Chris Heath that he blames the Disney show 'Hannah Montana' for the current trouble in his family, which includes his 
 
 
 
 "I hate to say it, but yes, I do. I'd take it back in a second," he said of the show, which shot Miley to stardom. 
 
 
 
 He also claims he's been made the "fall guy" for whenever negative news surrounds his family, referencing his daughter's Vanity Fair cover shoot controversy, in which the teenage star was photographed with just a sheet covering her. It's been a tough, scandal-filled year for Billy Ray Cyrus . The singer recently opened up to GQ magazine about his relationship with daughter Miley and revealed some regrets about the show that made her famous.In a lengthy profile, Cyrus told reporter Chris Heath that he blames the Disney show 'Hannah Montana' for the current trouble in his family, which includes his divorce from wife Tish."I hate to say it, but yes, I do. I'd take it back in a second," he said of the show, which shot Miley to stardom.He also claims he's been made the "fall guy" for whenever negative news surrounds his family, referencing his daughter's Vanity Fair cover shoot controversy, in which the teenage star was photographed with just a sheet covering her. 
 
 "Every time the train went off the track ... her people, or as they say in today's news, her handlers, every time they'd put [the blame on] me ... I took it because I'm her daddy ... OK, nail me to the cross," he told GQ.Cyrus said he worries about the people surrounding his daughter and helping her make career decisions."I'm scared for her," he said. "She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger. I want to get her sheltered from the storm."His revelations come in light of Miley's recent drug scandal. A video was released last December showing the 18-year-old smoking salvia from a bong.Cyrus tweeted about the incident shortly after the video hit the web."Sorry guys. I had no idea," the concerned father wrote. "Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. I'm so sad. There is much beyond my control right now."When Cyrus approached his daughter's handlers about the incident, he was told it was "none of his business."The singer has reportedly been estranged from Miley since the incident, describing their communication as "good enough to know it could be a lot better." ||||| Miley Cyrus Caught Taking Bong Hits of Salvia: 'Is It Me Tripping?' 
 
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 A video obtained by It's been a year peppered with scandal for Miley Cyrus . She did a bit of underage drinking and, of course, there's been a near constant uproar over her provocative choices in stage attire . Now comes a fresh scandal, and this one involves a big old bong.A video obtained by TMZ shows the 'Hannah Montana' star taking hits from a bong that was reportedly filled with a natural herb called salvia, which when smoked has psychedelic qualities. Possession of salvia is currently legal in California. The video was reportedly taken five days after Miley turned 18. 
 
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 According to the report, the video was shot by one of Miley's friends and it is very possible that someone stole or copied the video from that person's camera.The video begins with Cyrus taking a hit from the large bong as the song 'Comedown' by '90s rock band Bush plays in the background. After a few moments, she comes up for air and immediately begins to feel the effects of the drug. Soon, she's seeing things that aren't there, including her ex-boyfriend Liam Hemsworth."Oh, I'm not gonna lose it now ... I'm going," she says. "Having a little bit of a bad trip! Is that a f**king Liam lookalike or what the hell is that? Is that my boyfriend? Is that my boyfriend? Oh my God, he looks so much like Liam!"She then points to her head and asks a friend, "Is it me tripping? Is it me tripping?"It's then that Cyrus begins to laugh uncontrollably, before asking the camerawoman (who is egging the star to keep talking), "Oh my God, are you being as weird as I think you are right now?"The video closes with a stream of incoherent babbling and grunting from Cyrus and her friend telling her that she is "going to s**t a brick when you see this."Cyrus has so far been silent on the controversy, but her father, country star Billy Ray Cyrus, has responded with an emotional message to his fans. "Sorry guys. I had no idea. Just saw this stuff for the first time myself. I'm so sad. There is much beyond my control right now," he wrote on Twitter.Salvia is known to provide a brief-but-extreme hallucinatory experience when smoked. According to a news report from Current TV, "Its [salvia's] long-term effects are not well understood, but the immediate effects can be dramatic ... for five minutes, the highly-concentrated form of this drug can render people totally incapacitated.""It is by far and away the most potent naturally-occurring hallucinogen," Dr. Brian Roth, head of a national drug screening program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, told Current. "This drug targets this one receptor and when it hits that receptor it turns it on and then causes this profound alteration in how people view reality."Miley had celebrated her eighteenth birthday a few days before the actual date (Nov. 23) at a private party where she was reportedly spotted with Nickelodeon star Avan Jogia.In October, after 17 years of marriage, Miley's parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus, filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences. Rumor was that singer Bret Michaels had an affair with Tish, but the rocker toldhe did not have an affair with Tish and he's not the reason Billy Ray and Tish are getting divorced.Yes, that's Bush's 15-year old hit 'Comedown' blasting in the background of this soon-to-be-infamous video. 'Comedown' was the third single from their breakthrough 1995 album 'Sixteen Stone' and the first track to hit big in America on the rock charts. The lyrics fit the atmosphere caught on tape: "I don't want to come back down from this cloud."
– Billy Ray Cyrus is not happy. He's getting divorced, his daughter is doing bong hits on video ... where did it all go wrong? Hannah Montana, he tells GQ. The magazine's long profile paints a depressing picture: Chris Heath spoke to Cyrus mostly in shadow (he likes to have the lights out), just five days after he first saw the infamous bong-hit video. Highlights ... or, as it were, lowlights: On Hannah Montana: "It destroyed my family. I'll tell you right now—the damn show destroyed my family. ... I'd erase it all in a second if I could." On Miley: "Every time something happened in Miley's career, every time the train went off the track, if you will—Vanity Fair, pole-dancing, whatever scandal it was—her people, or as they say in today's news, her handlers, every time they'd put me... 'Somebody's shooting at Miley! Put the old man up there!' Well, I took it, because I'm her daddy, and that's what daddies do. 'OK, nail me to the cross, I'll take it...'" Why he didn't go to her 18th birthday party: "Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up. Once again all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, 'Daddy endorsed this stuff...' I started realizing I'm being used." On his parental failings: Cyrus says he's never been able to discipline his children and that he tried too hard to be a friend. "I should have been a better parent. I should have said, 'Enough is enough—it's getting dangerous and somebody's going to get hurt.'" On Miley's future: He brings up Kurt Cobain, Anna Nicole Smith, and Michael Jackson as others for whom the "world was just spinning so fast." Does he really think Miley is in a situation like theirs? "I don't know. I'm her daddy so maybe I'm a little sensitive to it, but now's a real good time to make sure everything's OK," he says. But he is "scared for her. She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger." Click for more from the profile.