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<\/p>\nMiley Cyrus says she was not aware of Sinead O\u2019Connor\u2019s \u201cfragile mental state\u201d when the Irish singer criticised the video to her hit song Wrecking Ball.<\/p>\n
The US singer and actress said that at the time she had been \u201cexpecting controversy and backlash\u201d for the provocative video, but not from other women who had \u201cbeen in my position before\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a new special, titled Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions), Miley dedicated a performance of her track Wonder Woman to Sinead.<\/p>\n
Miley made reference to O\u2019Connor\u2019s celebrated Nothing Compares 2 U music video in the opening shots of her video for Wrecking Ball, released in 2013.<\/p>\n
In response, Sinead published an open letter to the former Disney star warning her about the dangers of being sexualised in the music industry.<\/p>\n
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She wrote: \u201cThe message you keep sending is that it\u2019s somehow cool to be prostituted\u2026 it\u2019s so not cool Miley. It\u2019s dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be encouraging you to send healthier messages to your peers, that they and you are worth more than what is currently going on in your career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sinead, described as one of Ireland\u2019s \u201cgreatest and most gifted composers, songwriters and performers\u201d, died last month at the age of 56.<\/p>\n
In her special, broadcast on US network ABC and streaming service Hulu, Miley reflected on the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time when I made Wrecking Ball, I was expecting for there to be controversy and backlash, but I don\u2019t think I expected other women to put me down or turn on TV, especially women that had been in my position before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo this is when I had received an open letter from Sinead O\u2019Connor 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.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAll that I saw was that another woman had told me that this idea was not my idea, and even if I was convinced that it was, it was still just men-in-power\u2019s idea of me and they had manipulated me to believe that it was my own idea when it never really was.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was and it is, and I still love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She continued: \u201cOur younger childhood triggers and traumas come up in weird and odd ways, and I think I just been judged for so long for my own choices that I was just exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I was in this place where I finally was making my own choices in my own decisions and to have that taken away from me, deeply upset me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201dGod bless Sinead O\u2019Connor for real and all seriousness.\u201d<\/p>\n
The documentary then cut to Miley singing a rendition of her track Wonder Woman, with the words \u201cdedicated to Sinead O\u2019Connor\u201d briefly appearing on screen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n