10 years ago,
#MileyCyrus told rollingstone her
#WreckingBall music video was inspired by
#SineadOConnor's 1990 classic
#NothingCompares2U. In response, O’Connor wrote an open letter to Cyrus and criticized her for “getting naked:" “The message you keep sending is that it's somehow cool to be prostituted.”
Cyrus responded negatively to the message at first, but has had years to reflect on it and learn more about O’Connor. During ABC special 'Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions),' she explained, “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 only so much, and all that I saw was that another woman told me that this idea was not my idea."
Cyrus said the letter came at a bad time when there were a lot of things going on with her overall transformation. “I think I had just been judged for so long on my own choices that I was just exhausted. And I was in this pla...