Miley Cyrus, who simply launched a brand new tune “Used To Be Younger,” is reflecting on a tense second between herself and the late Sinéad O’Connor. On the tenth anniversary of her 2013 tune and video “Wrecking Ball,” the place a then-20-year-old Cyrus appeared nude, the singer regarded again on an open letter O’Connor wrote, which included criticism that Cyrus wasn’t “caring” for herself. “You might be price greater than your physique or your sexual attraction,” O’Connor wrote.

In response to the open letter, in 2013 Cyrus shared a screenshot of tweets O’Connor had written when she was in a fragile psychological state. Cyrus in contrast O’Connor to Amanda Bynes, who had additionally been struggling together with her psychological well being in a public discussion board (“Earlier than Amanda Bynes…. There was….”). O’Connor chastised on the time: “You might have posted immediately tweets of mine that are two years outdated, which had been posted by me after I was unwell and searching for assist in order to make them seem like they’re latest… In doing so that you mock myself and Amanda Bynes for having suffered with psychological well being points and for having sought assist. I imply actually… who advises you?”

Opening as much as ABC, Cyrus mirrored on her age on the time and the distinctive triggers she’d been coping with: “I feel I’d simply been judged for thus lengthy for my very own selections that I used to be simply exhausted, and I used to be on this place the place I lastly was making my very own selections and my very own choices, and to have that taken away from me deeply upset me..” The complete quote is beneath.

I used to be anticipating there to be controversy and backlash, however I don’t suppose I anticipated different ladies to place me down or activate me, particularly ladies that had been in my place earlier than. That is after I’d acquired an open letter from Sinead O’Connor, and I had no thought concerning the fragile psychological state that she was in, and I used to be additionally solely 20 years outdated, so I might actually solely wrap my head round psychological sickness a lot. All that I noticed was that one other lady had instructed me that this concept was not my thought.

Our youthful childhood triggers and traumas come up in bizarre and odd methods, and I feel I’d simply been judged for thus lengthy for my very own selections that I used to be simply exhausted, and I used to be on this place the place I lastly was making my very own selections and my very own choices, and to have that taken away from me deeply upset me. God bless Sinead O’Connor, for actual, in all seriousness.

Watch Cyrus look again on the second beneath.