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Miley Cyrus Addresses Sinéad O’Connor Feud Over ‘Wrecking Ball’: ‘I Had No Idea About the Fragile Mental State She Was In’

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Thania Garcia Miley Cyrus’ ABC special, “Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions),” which aired on ABC on Aug.

24, featured several emotional moments in reflection of the singer’s decades-long career in the entertainment industry. One of the many contemplations saw Cyrus touching on her infamous feud with the late Sinéad O’Connor over her criticism of Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” music video which featured the singer posing nude.

Cyrus told ABC she expected there “to be controversy and backlash,” after she released the video nearly 10 years ago but did not anticipate “other women to put me down or turn on me, especially women that had been in my position before,” she recalled.

In 2013, in anticipation of the single’s visual counterpart, Cyrus was quoted saying that she’d been inspired by O’Connor’s visuals for her 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.” O’Connor replied to the then-20-year-old Cyrus “in the spirit of motherliness and with love,” with an open letter that advised Cyrus that it wasn’t “‘cool’ to be naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos”, adding that it would “obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped” by the industry. “None of the men ogling you give a shit about you either, do not be fooled,” she wrote.

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