A woman claiming to be Miley Cyrus’ biological mother has alleged that she became pregnant with the singer after she was sex trafficked as a child and impregnated at the age of 12.
Jaymee Lee has spoken out for the first time after filing multiple lawsuits, two of which have been dismissed, against the singer’s parents, Billy Ray and Tish Cyrus.
The 45-year-old sued Ray and Cyrus for a ‘breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation, intentional inflection of emotional distress and unlawful interference with parental rights’.
Billy Ray denied these claims, describing them as ‘absurd’. Since then, Lee was ordered to pay $7,500 in legal fees by a judge in Davidson County, Tennessee, on Wednesday.
Now, however, speaking to the Daily Mail, Lee has said she has plans to lodge a fresh case in Malibu, where Miley, 33, lives, at a family court suit aimed at securing a DNA test that would decide the matter.
Lee, a divorced mother of two sons and one daughter, said: ‘I never wanted to involve Miley. But she’s evidence – the evidence I have to show that I was sex trafficked and had a baby because of it.’
The speech therapist, who now lives in Peoria, Arizona, claimed that she was allegedly trafficked at an early age by a local cartel-affiliated gang in Ruidoso, New Mexico, where she grew up.
During her pregnancy, she said she also attempted to run away multiple times, including to her grandparents’ house in Jamul, California.
She told the Mail: ‘I knew that I wanted to protect this baby at all costs.
‘I specifically picked the name Miley as soon as I realized I was pregnant because of all the miles I had traveled [while being trafficked]. I wanted a name that was one of a kind that could be linked back to me, specifically.’
However, the Cyrus family maintain that Miley was named Destiny Hope Cyrus at birth, which is a detail that Lee’s account does not explain.
Miley has also spoken about the origins of her current name, explaining that she was nicknamed ‘Smiley’, which she later shortened to ‘Miley’.
Lee then claimed that she approached several celebrities in the hope that they would adopt her unborn baby at the time, including Julia Roberts, who had a ranch in New Mexico, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, who had ties to the state, and Hillary Clinton, who was campaigning there at the time.
Despite the A-listers allegedly failing to take her up on her offer, Lee went on to claim that she turned to Cyrus’s now-godmother, Dolly Parton, who ‘connected her’ to Ray.
In her lawsuit the 45-year-old claims that she and Ray agreed on an open adoption where she could be the child’s nanny and piano teacher.
However, the singer allegedly ignored their deal and prevented Lee from seeing Miley.
Lee further claimed that she approached the Kardashian family to help her find a lawyer to fight Ray.
Metro has contacted Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus for comment, as well as the Kardashians and Sharon Osbourne.
Discussing why she is speaking about this now, Lee said she had forgotten about her trauma, but a move back to Ruidoso triggered flashbacks of her alleged abuse.
Once she allegedly remembered, Lee then reached out to Miley via her lawyers, but did not hear anything back. She also said she reported her trafficking to the cops, but she could ‘never get anybody to take it seriously’.
Asked about her plans to file a new case, Lee told the publication: ‘I would ask Miley to do a DNA test to get the truth to show that I am her birth mom. I understand that I’m biologically her mom. Does it mean that now I’m her mom? I’m not.
‘I’m not claiming any of those moments, and I’m not trying to take away anything of what her and Tish [Cyrus] have, because I would only want for her something beautiful and good and pure.’
Acknowledging that her story ‘does seem weird’, Lee added: ‘I know a lot of people out there are going that’s a crazy story – and it is a crazy story. The truth is crazy sometimes. I didn’t choose it.’
She also told the Mail that her alleged story is ‘important for all of us to use this as a learning experience to say, you can block out being raped and having a baby and remember it later’.
She concluded: ‘It happens, it can happen, it does happen. If it’s happening to you, you’re not alone.’
After her request for a DNA test was denied in October, Ray filed a motion to dismiss Lee’s ‘false and absurd’ claims and accused her of harassment.
A statement read: ‘The Court dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice this morning and awarded Mr Cyrus the recovery of his reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees and costs’.
Ray, 64, and Tish, 58, share three children: Miley, 33, Braison, 31, and Noah, 25.
He also adopted her two children, Brandi, 38, and Trace, 36, from her previous marriage to Baxter Neal Helson.
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