Posted on 07/26/2023 11:26:46 AM PDT by Morgana
Sinead O'Connor has died at the age of 56 after years of mental health battles, her 'devastated' family confirmed.
The Irish singer shot to stardom across the world in 1990 by her heartrending cover of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U.
It comes a year after the mother-of-four's son Shane, 17, took his life in January 2022 after escaping hospital while on suicide watch.
At the time of her death, the musician, who changed her name to Shuhada' Sadaqat in 2018 when she converted to Islam, was thought to be spending her time between Co Roscommon, Ireland, and London.
In her last Tweet, O'Connor posted a photo of Shane and said: 'Been living as undead night creature since. He was the love of my life, the lamp of my soul.
'We were one soul in two halves. He was the only person who ever loved me unconditionally.
'I am lost in the bardo without him.'
The mother-of-four also posted a series of Spotify links to relatively sad and heart breaking songs, including one she dedicated to 'all mothers of Suicided children'.
In a statement, O'Connor's family said: 'It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad.
'Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.'
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Nobody can turn a phrase like the Daily Mail.
Sad end to a sad life. I didn't realize she was younger than I am.
A crying shame, really. A rare talent. But, she chose to waste her life away.
Odd, indeed.
It fits with her reported mental health issues.
The heart of the law is Mercy…JP2 would be happy to see her and welcome her. If you don’t know this then you know nothing about JP2
Oh see was looking for it.
Yes. Very sad. Cries for help everywhere. Peter Gabriel was at one time her live-in partner. After a few years he couldn’t take the insanity. It left him very damaged.
Well she lived twice as long as Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin fwiw.
I found her revolting from the start. And swas placing ads to do what?
I’ve been saying for years, look at how many times biblical scriptures references “the sins of the father” and even Jesus reminded us how they would be visited upon the third and the fourth generations.
Nowhere does scripture talk about the sins of the mother. The ancients knew those weren’t commenting on as everyone knew they would go on forever.
She was crazier than a sh!thouse rat but an amazing singer.
To fight SO hard for the right to murder the unborn - yet refuse to abort her own son Jake when her career was just starting, then convert to a religion which still openly oppresses women to this day is just TOO much cognitive dissonance for MY level of bipolar disorder.
So long, Sinead. RIP.
Gonna dig out your LP’s now and raise the roof startin’ with The Lion and the Cobra.
True! They are the crazies who send their children to get puberty blockers injections and sex hormone injections. To prepare them for genital (breasts cut off too) mutilation by scum ball doctors. Called gender reassignment surgery.
These abusive "moms" also take their children to the drag queen shows. The fathers are not doing this.
A sad person.
She was one step ahead of a butterfly net.
Yes, a wonderful singer, but so unhappy always. Terrible about the son, but this will be like a knife in the heart to her other children.
“This was long before her child ever committed suicide..”
Poor devil didn’t have a chance with this whackjob for a mother.
That would only intensify whatever mental issues she had and even begin some.
When the Head Curator at the Museum of the Strange can't take your insanity, you have to be pretty nuts.
she was a troubled troubled soul.
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