Motherly advice turns sour as Cyrus mocks singer’s mental health

What started out as ‘motherly’ advice from a woman with 20 years of experience in the music business has led to pop’s latest queen of controversy, Miley Cyrus, being lambasted by mental health groups and threatened with legal action.

Now hailed as the celebrity world’s latest social media feud, it has seen Cyrus, the former Disney starlet turned ‘twerker’, pitted against Sinéad O’Connor, the 46-year-old music veteran and long-time political activist, herself no stranger to controversy.

The spat began when O’Connor sent an open letter to Cyrus, 20, statingthat she was “extremely concerned” about the US singer’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ music video — in which Cyrus writhes around naked on said wrecking ball and suggestively licks a sledgehammer — and warned her not to be exploited by the music business.