The following article references child abuse, sexual abuse, mental health struggles, and suicide.
On July 26, 2023, Irish songstressSinead O’Connor diedat the age of 56.
“Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”
As of this writing, the cause of death has not been reported.
Her shaved head and nonconformity also propelled O’Connor into controversy.
Musical expression eventually became an outlet for the troubled youth, who ran away from home at age 13.
“There was no such thing as therapy and no such thing as recovery, basically.
So for me, music was where I kind of put everything.”
She notes that this abuse was further reflected by the way the media treated her.
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In the years following her success, her levels of depression “slowly went up and up and up.
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She also expressed that she’d felt abandoned by her family following her recovery.
After she’d been found safe, she took to Facebook to berate her ex-boyfriends and children.
“You stole my sons from me.
I’m s*** to you.”
The named men are also the fathers of her four children.
“You’re dead to me.
You killed your mother,” she wrote.
The singer put out a plea on her social media as a search mission continued for him.
To her son, she tweeted (viaNBC News), “Shane, your life is precious.
God didn’t chisel that beautiful smile on your beautiful face for nothing.”
She continued, “My world would collapse without you.
You are my heart.
c’mon don’t stop it from beating.
kindly don’t harm yourself.
Go to the Gardai and let’s get you to hospital.”
Lunny was 17 years old.
After the tragic news story broke, O’Connor mourned the loss of her child in a heartbreaking tweet.
“May he rest in peace and may no one follow his example.
I love you so much.
c’mon be at peace.”
“Hospital will help a while,” she wrote on Twitter.
“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.”
O’Connor posted about the funeral on social media.
“We just said goodbye to our beautiful angel, Shaney,” O’Connor tweeted (viaThe Independent).
“Very lovely Hindu ceremony.
Shane will have loved it.
He was always chanting ‘Om.
