Miley Cyrus is showing love to the late Sinead O’Connor, years after she was involved in a public spat with the musician.

Cyrus appeared with the Grammy-winning guitarist and Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard on the Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary Special on Sunday to perform O’Connor’s rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.”

The powerful performance officially laid to rest any lingering sparks of resentment the former Hannah Montana star may have had for O’Connor, who once kicked off a social media-fueled feud with her over a decade ago.

It all started when Cyrus gave an interview to Rolling Stone in 2013, in which she claimed the music video for her song “Wrecking Ball” was inspired by O’Connor’s for “Nothing Compares 2 U.” O’Connor responded to the tribute by penning an open letter claiming that “nothing but harm will come in the long run, from allowing yourself to be exploited.”

O’Connor warned that the video, in which Cyrus appeared naked on top of a wrecking ball, “is absolutely NOT in ANY way an empowerment of yourself or any other young women for you to send across the message that you are to be valued (even by you) more for your sexual appeal than your obvious talent.”

The infamously political, confrontational Irish musician told Cyrus, “The music business doesn’t give a sh– about you, or any of us. They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think it’s what YOU wanted… None of the men oggling you give a sh– about you either, do not be fooled.”

Cyrus responded in hateful fashion by tweeting a screencap of several tweets in which O’Connor shared about her struggles with mental health, accompanied by the caption, “Before Amanda Bynes…. There was….” Bynes, a fellow child star, was also enduring significant mental health issues at the time.

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O’Connor died in July 2023 at the age of 56. A month after her death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, Cyrus opened up about her exchange with O’Connor, saying in her in her concert special Endless Summer Vacation: Continued (Backyard Sessions), “I was expecting there to be controversy and backlash” to the “Wrecking Ball” video, “but I don’t think I expected other women to put me down or turn on me, especially women that had been in my position before.”

Cyrus continued, “This is when I’d received an open letter from Sinead O’Connor, and I had no idea about the fragile mental state that she was in, and I was also only 20 years old, so I could really only wrap my head around mental illness so much. All that I saw was that another woman had told me that this idea was not my idea.”

“God bless Sinead O’Connor, for real, in all seriousness,” she said during that special and gave the sentiment heart tonight with her stirring rendition of the Prince-penned classic.

O’Connor and Prince both had their own complicated histories with Saturday Night Live in their lifetimes. O’Connor is the agent of arguably the most controversial SNL moment of all time, when she tore a picture of Pope John Paul II on camera while uttering the words “fight the real enemy” on the Oct. 3, 1992, episode.

The prolific musician meant the act as a protest of child abuse both perpetrated and covered up by the Catholic Church in Ireland, a scandal the church eventually admitted to, but the backlash was swift and intense. O’Connor was banned from SNL for life, later reflecting to EW in 2021, “The 10 years after that Saturday Night Live performance, the way that I was dealt with was shocking… it was the fashion to treat me bad, whether you were in my bed, at a board meeting, a TV show, a gig, or a party. Everybody treated me like I was a crazy b—- cos I ripped up the Pope’s picture. We know I’m a crazy b—-, but that’s not why.”

In her memoir Rememberings, released the same year, O’Connor elaborated on the moment, writing, “A lot of people say or think that tearing up the Pope’s photo derailed my career. That’s not how I feel about it. I feel that having a No. 1 record derailed my career and my tearing the photo put me back on the right track… After SNL, I could just be me.”

Prince was featured as the musical guest on SNL three times between 1981 and 2014. He also appeared on the 15th Anniversary Special in 1989, and more infamously, at the 40th anniversary special afterparty in 2015.

The day after the special aired, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon recounted that the party was hosted at the Plaza Hotel, and featured a stage with a full band setup — but no booked band — “In case anyone wants to get on stage and jam.” After Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, and Michael Bolton played impromptu sets, Prince was encouraged by the likes of Elvis Costello, Dave Chapelle, and Bill Murray to play his own.

“All of the sudden the crowd parts, there’s purple smoke, and there’s a dude floating toward the stage, it’s like there’s a jetpack on his knees,” Fallon joked. Prince then played “Let’s Go Crazy” causing what Tonight Show band member Questlove described as a “mosh pit of celebrities” to rush the stage to see him.