‘It really bums me out' admits Miley Cyrus as she opens up on feud with late Irish star and ‘heartache' regret
MILEY Cyrus has said he feud with the late Sinead O'Connor really "bums" her out.
The Hollywood superstar and the late Dublin rocker were involved in an infamous spat 12 years ago after
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Sinead O'Connor and Miley Cyrus had a spat in 2013
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Miley Cyrus has shared her regret for reacting the way she did to Sinead's letter
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Miley performed Sinead's hit song on SNL this year
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The letter stated, 'We don't encourage our daughters to walk around naked in it because it makes them prey for animals' and accused the youngster of being exploited by the industry.
Miley, who was 20 at the time, retaliated by posting Sinead's tweets about trying to find a mental health treatment facility while she was struggling with psychiatric issues.
The Flowers singer has now reflected on how she handled the criticism and regrets her reaction.
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Speaking to the New York Times, she said: "I responded in a way that I would never [have] as an adult - but that was also an adult talking to a young person.
"That feels like her experience [was] being reflected onto me, but that's not my experience. My experience was not that the music industry didn't care about me."
In Sinead's letter, she wrote: 'The music business doesn't give a s*** about you, or any of us. They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think it's what you wanted..."
When asked if these words resonate with Miley now, the
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The 32-year-old explained how she's "never known anything else" and was given a handbook from her dad
She added: "I understand the business that I'm in. I'm in the music industry, I'm in the record business, so when I sign a contract, they are buying records that they wish to sell.
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"So I understand that I am setting myself up to become merchandise. I am committed to them that I want to not only bring success for myself, but to them also, so I just understand the music industry.
"And at one point in my life I look forward to just being an artist – untied and untethered – at some point I will get to do that."
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and Brittany Howard paid tribute to Sinead by singing a cover of Nothing Compares 2 U during Saturday Night Live's 50th season anniversary show in February 2025.
'PAYING MY RESPECTS'
The We Can't Stop star revealed that SNL producer Lorne Michaels' had requested them to do the performance after the creative director
She added: "That initially didn't come from me but I thought it was a great idea because I think we all had – again, talking about those band aids on heartaches and wounds – this interaction that I had with Sinead bums me out because I really respect her as a person, as an artist, and so it was my way of paying my respects."
In August 2023, a month after Sinead's death, the Party In The USA star was shown walking up to a microphone stand as a message read, 'Dedicated to Sinéad O'Connor' before she performed the song 'Wonder Woman; from her new album.
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During the TV appearance, Miley admitted: 'I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in.
"I was also only 20 years old so I could really only wrap my head around mental illness only so much."
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