Sinead O'Connor discovered her planned appearance at the upcoming American Music Awards was scrapped when show officials couldn't book Pope Francis to join her onstage.
The Nothing Compares 2 U singer, who famously ripped up a photo of late pontiff John Paul II on Saturday Night Live in 1992, has revealed she learned about the bizarre plan weeks later.
In a post on her website last week, which begins, "Are you sitting down? That's what my manager said to me before he told me what I'm about to tell you", O'Connor explains that executives from Dick Clark Productions had hoped that Pope Francis would introduce O'Connor, who was booked to perform Nothing Compares 2 U and her new single Take Me to Church.
"Since naturally their idea was not only disrespectful to the Pope and to millions of Catholics (The idea he ought consider lowering his feet into the disgusting world of show business and celebrity at all! Never mind with Sinead O'Connor) they didn't get a response and consequently I'm now not doing the show," she wrote.
"I never heard anything so warped and disrespectful to both the Pope and myself, as well as millions of Catholics (As well as my fans, with whom I have some f**king street cred, thanks, and integrity) in my life," O'Connor wrote.
