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The move, during a performance of Bob Marley’s song 'War' on 'Saturday Night Live', marked Sinead O'Connor as a controversial figure for years. Photo: Filepic Singer Sinéad O’Connor is almost as famous for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II in 1992 while guest hosting Saturday Night Live as she is for her music. The world was scandalised, though in later years she proved to have been ahead of her time by explaining she had been protesting sexual abuse by clergy. “Holy Terror," proclaimed the next day’s New York Daily News front page. The move, during a performance of Bob Marl...

It was the live TV moment that stunned the world and almost killed her career – now, the star responsible explains what was really going on.

It was the live TV moment that stunned the world and almost killed her career – now, the star responsible explains what was really going on.

"My intention had always been to destroy my mother's photo of the pope," she wrote. "It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother." O'Connor wrote that she visited her mother's home after her death and "took down from her bedroom wall the only photo she ever had up there, which was of Pope John Paul II". The performer said "it was taken when he visited Ireland in 1979". She recounted how the pope had told the "young people of Ireland" that he loved them after making a show of kissing the ground at Dublin Airport, as if the fli...

"My intention had always been to destroy my mother's photo of the pope," she wrote. "It represented lies and liars and abuse. The type of people who kept these things were devils like my mother." O'Connor wrote that she visited her mother's home after her death and "took down from her bedroom wall the only photo she ever had up there, which was of Pope John Paul II". The performer said "it was taken when he visited Ireland in 1979". She recounted how the pope had told the "young people of Ireland" that he loved them after making a show of kissing the ground at Dublin Airport, as if the fli...