Sinead O'Connor released 10 albums over the course of her impressive career, but one moment stood out more than any other: her performance on Saturday Night Live.
as a protest of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. “We know we will win,” she sang while staring into the camera. “We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.” As she sang the word “evil,” she ripped up a photo ofI. Before throwing the pieces on the ground, she encouraged the audience to “fight the real enemy.”mocked O’Connor during his monologue, holding up what he claimed was the taped-together pope photo that O’Connor had ripped.
Poster of Sinead O’Connor ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II is seen during a protest against the Polish catholic church“She’s very lucky it wasn’t my show. ’Cause if it was my show, I woulda gave her such a smack,” Pesci, now 80, told the audience before adding in a dig about O’Connor’s shaved head. “I woulda grabbed her by her … eyebrows.”
Despite the criticism, O’Connor later said she had no regrets about the controversial performance even though it more or less killed her career. “I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career, and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track,” she wrote in her 2021 memoir,
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