Sinead O’Connor attempts suicide

Irish singer and songwriter Sinead O'Connor.

Irish singer and songwriter Sinead O'Connor.

Published Nov 30, 2015

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Singer Sinead O’Connor tried to commit suicide on Sunday.

The controversial pop music figure posted a suicide note on Facebook, claiming that she had booked into an Irish hotel under an assumed name and had taken an overdose.

O’Connor was eventually located by police and, according to the Daily Mail, is being given medical assistance.

The “Nothing Compares To You” singer wrote that she had been “howling, crying for weeks” and that her family were to blame for her state of mind.

“There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear,” she wrote.

“I have taken an overdose. There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name.

“If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they'd never have known.

“I'm such a rotten horrible mother and person, that I've been alone. Howling crying for weeks. And been told by them all t go f**k myself. I'm invisible. I don't matter a shred to anyone. No one has come near me. I've died a million times already with the pain of it. So yeah.. Strangers like me.. But my family don't value me at all. They wouldn't know if I was dead until weeks from now if I wasn't f***ing informing them now. (sic)"

The 48-year-old mother of four received over 1000 messages of support, with many urging her to keep on fighting.

But O’Connor was clearly at the end of her tether, having announced earlier in the day that she was through with the music business.

“I need a new home. And a new job. A new life ... Music is over for me. Music did this. It rendered me invisible. Murdered my soul. I'm never going back to music,” she said.

O’Connor also accused her former husbands of keeping her children away from her as she recovered from a hysterectomy she underwent in August.

“The withholding of my babies from me without any sound reason by their fathers and the rest of my family, is a horrific set of betrayals. But my family don’t value me at all … My children don’t care if I live or die anyway. Neither do their dads. Everyone is better off. Never ever do this to a woman again. Let this be your lesson.”

O’Connor has endured miserable luck in love. Her husband, Barry Herridge, is her fourth. O’Connor met Herridge, who is an online drug counsellor, who she posted an open invitation for a boyfriend and shelter online. The pair tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2011. They split just 16 days later: O’Connor was determined to score some weed after the ceremony which, naturally, didn’t sit well with Herridge. O’Connor blamed “certain people in his life” for the split. They later remarried.

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