\nCyrus then revealed that the late singer Sinead O’Connor, who passed away last month, wrote her a letter at the time. “So this is when I had received an open letter from Sinéad O’Connor, and I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in,” Cyrus said of the Irish singer. “And I was also only 20 years old. So I could really only wrap my head around mental illness so much. And all that I saw was that another woman had told me that this idea was not my idea.”<\/p>\n
\n“And even if I was convinced that it was, it was still just, you know, men in power’s idea of me,” Cyrus remembered of O’Connor’s letter. “And they had manipulated me to believe that it was my own idea when it never really was.”<\/p>\n
\nAlthough that might’ve been O’Connor’s message, Cyrus said that was far from the truth. “It was [my idea],” she said. “And it is. And I still love it.” <\/p>\n
\nAs a reminder, in between scenes of Cyrus swinging nude on a wrecking ball, the music video also had a closeup scene of Cyrus singing and crying straight to the camera. At the time, it was compared to O’Connor’s very own music video to her song “Nothing Compares 2 U.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related story![](\"https:\/\/www.sheknows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Miley-Cyrus-1.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\")
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