“Noah and Dominic were seeing each other in a friends-with-benefits way, off and on,” a source told People. “They stopped seeing each other and then Tish started something up.”
The source further claimed that the youngest Cyrus sister was “offended” by her mother’s relationship with Purcell and that “Tish knew he had been seeing Noah”.
“Tish never gave Noah the chance to talk about all of this before they got married,” the source continued.
Meanwhile, an inside source claimed to Us Weekly that Purcell and Noah were involved for “about eight to nine months”.
“Noah and Tish haven’t spoken since the whole thing happened with Dominic,” the source told the publication, adding that the family rift is real.
“Tish is spiralling out of control and now trying to figure out how best to diffuse this,” they added.
Amid the family furore, it was business as usual for Miley on March 3, as her song ‘Flowers’ was named International Song of the Year at the Brit Awards in London.
An insider told People that the songstress “had no idea about the drama with Dominic – no idea at all”.
“She confronted her mum about it. She thinks it’s a strange situation, but she loves her mum and wants her to be happy,” the insider added. Noah, meanwhile, remains “loyal to Billy Ray”, a source told People, adding that “she and Billy Ray have always had a really close relationship”.
At the time of going to press, reps for Noah had not commented on the claims, but she was spotted spending time with her fiancé, Pinkus, at Paris Fashion Week, while Tish was seen looking stony-faced in Los Angeles.
For now, Tish’s focus seems to be on her new husband and Miley, with the proud mum still buzzing from her older daughter’s first Grammy’s win.
“Honestly, Miley like blows everything off, like it’s no biggie,” she recently shared on an episode of her and daughter Brandi’s podcast Sorry We’re Stoned with special guest Wiz Khalifa on February 29. “I literally was emotional for like two days because the feeling in the rooms at those things can be so weird, but in that moment when Miley was on stage, the room felt like one,” she gushed.
Unfortunately though, it appears that at the moment her family is far from united.