10 years after Sinead O'Connor penned an open letter criticizing Miley Cyrus, Cyrus discussed her response to the situation: 'I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in.'
"I was expecting 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," Cyrus said Thursday night in her. "This is when I'd received an open letter from Sinead O'Connor, and I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in, and I was also only 20 years old, so I could really only wrap my head around mental illness so much.
"Our younger childhood triggers and traumas come up in weird and odd ways, and I think I'd just been judged for so long for my own choices that I was just exhausted, and I was in this place where I finally was making my own choices and my own decisions, and to have that taken away from me deeply upset me," she continued. "God bless Sinead O'Connor, for real, in all seriousness.
, with a title card indicating that the song was dedicated to O'Connor. At the end of the song, Cyrus also paused for a moment of silence. Elsewhere in the special, Cyrus discussed her relationship with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, and said he was "under-appreciated" as a vocalist when he rose to prominence in the country music scene. She also recalled auditioning for"This has a vintage 1970s Mickey Mouse T-shirt underneath, which I thought would be getting the point across of what the song was really about," Cyrus said of her clothing choice for the video.
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