Miley Cyrus reflected on her feud with Sinead O’Connor during her ABC special.
It’s been 10 years since Miley Cyrus twerked on Robin Thicke and swung around nude on a wrecking ball, prompting the late Sinéad O’Connor to publish an open letter to the young musician at the time. Despite reacting negatively to the criticism when she was 20 years old, Cyrus, now 30, is reflecting on their public feud.
While discussing her career on the ABC music special, Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions), Cyrus opened up about O’Connor’s reaction to her controversial “Wrecking Ball” music video — which she told the Rolling Stone was inspired by the Irish singer’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” video.
“I was expecting for there to be controversy and backlash,” Cyrus said of her transformed image, per Yahoo Entertainment. “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.”
Shortly after the video’s release, an “extremely concerned” O’Connor published an open letter in The Guardian, where she warned Cyrus against obscuring her talent by allowing herself to be “pimped” out by the music industry and “exploited” — which she wrote was “absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women.
