Miley Cyrus Dedicates Song To Late Sinéad O’Connor 10 Years After That Feud

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Miley Cyrus is speaking about that feud with the late Sinéad O’Connor 10 years later. O’Connor — who died at age 56 on July 26 this year — famously wrote Cyrus an open letter criticizing her nudity-filled video for “Wrecking Ball” in 2013.

Cyrus then hit back at the time, sharing tweets from O’Connor, who was battling mental illness. Cyrus also mentioned Amanda Bynes in the post.

The musician — who reflects on her partying days in her new track “Used to Be Young — spoke about the incident with O’Connor during her one-hour TV special, “Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions)”, which aired on ABC on Thursday. READ MORE: Sinéad O’Connor’s Star-Studded Fights: From Miley Cyrus To Madonna “A lot has happened,” Cyrus shared, according to the Evening Standard. “’Wrecking Ball’, I had already had the demo, and I had taken this song, actually, to multiple producers who didn’t hear its potential and told me they didn’t think it fit Bangerz.

So I called the ‘Party In The U.S.A.’ guy and go, ‘Let’s do it again.'” She went on, “So at the time when I made ‘Wrecking Ball’, I was expecting for there to be controversy and backlash, but I don’t think I expected other women to put me down or turn on me, especially women that had been in my position before. “So this is when I had received an open letter from Sinéad O’Connor, and I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in.