
Sinéad O'Connor revisits Pope picture 'SNL' controversy
CNN
Sinéad O'Connor reportedly is explaining why she infamously ripped up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a 1992 performance on "Saturday Night Live."
The Irish singer-songwriter says she'd removed the photo of the then-Pontiff from her mother's bedroom wall after the elder woman died, according to an excerpt of O'Connor's forthcoming memoir, "Rememberings," published by Rolling Stone Magazine. "It was taken when he visited Ireland in 1979. 'Young people of Ireland,' he had said after making a show of kissing the ground at the Dublin airport like the flight had been overly frightening, 'I love you,'" the excerpt reads. "What a load of claptrap. Nobody loved us. Not even God. Sure, even our mothers and fathers couldn't stand us."
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