2023-07-26 22:36:01
In 1992, the Irish singer and the gesture of denunciation during ‘Saturday Night Live’
Sinead O’Connor she disappeared at the age of 56, a year after the death of her son Shane, who took his own life at 17 after escaping from the hospital.
“I’ve been a very troubled person.” Some time ago, having to describe herself, Sinead O’Connor had used these words, specifying one thing too, however, after much concern: “I don’t want to go back”.
In 1992, during a performance on Saturday Night Live, the singer had interrupted her performance of the Bob Marley song “War” with a memorable and controversial gesture: to protest against abuse and pedophilia in Catholic circles, she had torn a photo of Pope John Paul II by spelling out the words “fight the real enemy”. Years later, the singer explained that the photo in question belonged to her deceased mother, an abusive woman with whom she had had an extremely troubled and painful relationship. With that gesture, therefore, O’Connor had above all wanted to distance himself from her in a blatant and definitive way
July 26, 2023 – Updated July 26, 2023, 10:08 PM
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