Joe Pesci says he “would have slapped” Sinéad O’Connor in viral resurfaced clip

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Saturday Night Live clip in which he said he “would have slapped” Sinéad O’Connor resurfaced.The Goodfellas actor appeared on the show back in October 1992, one week after the Irish singer, who died earlier this week.O’Connor infamously performed Bob Marley’s ‘War’ during her performance in which she ripped up a photo of the pope and replaced the song’s lyric “racism” with “child abuse”.

She ended the performance by saying “Fight the real enemy,” and would later go on to explain the move was in protest of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.During Pesci’s opening monologue the following week, the actor addressed the controversy, saying: “Before we start the show, there’s a little matter I wanna clear up.

There was an incident on the show last week: Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope, and I thought that was wrong, so I asked someone to paste it back together.”He then presented the photo to applause from the audience, before adding: “I mean why should I let it bother me, right?

It wasn’t my show. But I’ll tell you one thing, she was very lucky it wasn’t my show, because if it was my show, I would have gave her such a smack.”The resurfaced clip has resulted in a backlash on Twitter, with one user writing: “Fuck Joe Pesci and everyone who was involved with this.”“I never saw this clip in response to Sinead at the time.