3. TIL: 27 years ago, Sinead O'Connor tore up the pope's picture on national TV. Wh...

TIL: 27 years ago, Sinead O'Connor tore up the pope's picture on national TV. When performing a cover of Marley's "War" on SNL, rewriting a few of the lyrics to address child abuse. As she finished the song she produced and tore to shreds a photograph of the Pope shouting, "Fight the real enemy!"

After she converted to Islam, she said she wouldn't be around "disgusting white people"

She became an unofficial Catholic priest (weird considering she publicly called 'em out for being pedophiles)

She boycotted the Grammys

The whole SNL thing

She wouldn't play the American national anthem before her shows (which I get, she's fucking Irish)

I don't know much about her, and didn't spend much (actually any) time researching this. It's the first article I found on my first google

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/sinead_oconnor/article-6364639/Every-time-Sinead-OConnor-said-did-controversial.html

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