00:00 Ladies and gentlemen, Sinead O'Connor.
00:03 CHEERING
00:27 It was such a shock for me to become a pop star. It's not what I wanted.
00:30 I just wanted to scream.
00:32 Everybody in music has a story in terms of what they went through.
00:38 Every person's duty to themselves is to act on their feelings
00:42 and to say when they think something is wrong.
00:45 And take the consequences.
00:47 I imagined that.
00:49 The level when Nothing Compares to You became a hit was extraordinary.
00:54 SCREAMING
00:57 The song went number one everywhere in the world.
01:02 SCREAMING
01:06 I had come across an article about families
01:12 who had been trying to lodge complaints against the church
01:16 for sexual abuse and were being silenced.
01:19 I had booked her on Saturday night.
01:23 Basically everything I had been raised to believe was a lie.
01:26 She blows the candle out, she goes off stage.
01:30 I had gone into the dressing room after her and I said,
01:33 "You know, I can't get you out of this."
01:36 And she said, "You know what? I don't want you to."
01:39 I acted at the time in the way that I felt would be most true to myself.
01:43 I wasn't thinking to myself, "I must be strong."
01:49 I didn't know I was strong.
01:52 An artist's job is sometimes to create
01:55 the difficult conversations that need to be had.
01:57 That's what art is for.
01:59 My name is Sinead O'Connor. I am a woman.
02:04 I have something to offer.
02:07 They tried to bury me.
02:11 They didn't realise I was a seed.
02:18 I don't mind being blind.
02:23 (whooshing)
02:25 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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