Billy Ray on the Miley Photo Controversy

The proud pop speaks out! BILLY RAY CYRUS says he's "amazed" by his daughter MILEY 's perseverance in the face of the recent controversy over her Vanity Fair shoot, in which she appeared to be topless underneath a sheet. "I can't imagine being her age and going through what she went through," he tells OK! magazine . "I'm amazed she kept on." "I know the business can eat you alive, but I'm a calloused old veteran, and she's a young, teenage girl," he says. "It's a heck of a storm to survive even with maturity." (link)