Remember When: Kris Kristofferson Defended Sinead O'Connor, and Their Unlikely Friendship

Just two weeks after her SNL appearance, O’Connor stepped on stage at MSG to perform Dylan’s 1979 song “I Believe in You” during his 1992 tribute concert and was met by an audience of boos. Kristofferson, who had introduced her as an “artist whose name has become synonymous with courage and integrity,” was asked to get her off the stage but did the opposite.

“I was not about to do that,” said Kristofferson in 2010 on the Irish television show Saturday Night with Miriam. “I went out and I said ‘Don’t let the bastards get you down,’ and she said ‘I’m not down,’ and she sang. It was very courageous. It just seemed to me wrong, booing that little girl out there, but she’s always had courage.”

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