- Music
- 04 Oct 13
Filmmaker and author Jonny Benjamin, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in his early 20s, has joined the Sinéad O’Connor/Miley Cyrus debate.
“Have you any idea what it's like to suffer with a mental illness like Amanda Bynes or Sinéad O'Connor have?” he posits. “Because not only do people with mental illness have to battle with the disease, they also have to battle stigma too, and that stigma or discrimination is sometimes just as hard or even harder to face than the mental illness itself. One in four of us has a mental illness. That's a quarter of Miley's fans. How do you think they feel after reading those tweets? What do you think it's going to do to a young person struggling in silence with what's happening in their head?
“If Miley Cyrus launched an attack on someone for having physical illness like cancer RCA Records would have apologised and Saturday Night Live dropped her. She must take down those tweets at least.”