Miley Cyrus has recalled how Billy Ray Cyrus cried when she presented him with an emotional new song.

Last month, the pop star unveiled a track titled Secrets, which she recorded with former Fleetwood Mac members Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham, and an accompanying music video.

In a statement, Miley revealed she penned the song as a "peace offering" to her father Billy amid their recent reconciliation, as they had been estranged for several years.

"My dad cried. Everyone I say that to, they go, 'I remember when my dad cried,'" she said during an interview for CBS News Sunday Morning. "You don't see your dad cry a lot... I don't know if I've seen my dad cry since his dad passed away. My dad, you know, I just haven't really seen that."

In August, Billy shared a preview of Secrets via his Instagram account and revealed that Miley had sent him the track as a gift for his 64th birthday.

The Flowers hitmaker went on to note that Secrets brought about "mixed emotions, because there's things that for us - me and my dad - we just kind of moved forward".

"We didn't feel that there needed to be a whole conversation, because him and I just communicate better through song," the 32-year-old continued. "And so, once he got the song, it feels like it said something in a couple of minutes that would have taken, you know, maybe a family with a more structured, therapeutic dynamic a lot of sessions. But instead of us doing sessions, we just do studio sessions, and we send a song, and we say, 'I love you.' And that feels peaceful for us."

Elsewhere in the chat, Miley insisted she doesn't "think there should be any judgment to how people make peace".

"I think if you need that kind of guidance... and I think it's important to talk about it," she added. "But with me and my dad, we just have always communicated better through music with each other."