Irish police say singer Sinead O’Connor has been located safe after she claimed in a troubling Facebook post Sunday morning that she had “taken an overdose.”
“This week has broken me,” the post on Ms. O’Connor’s verified page read. “The last two nights finished me off. 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.”
A spokesman for the Irish police refused to comment, but a police source said Ms. O’Connor had been “located safe,” Agence France-Presse reported.
Media reports said she was receiving medical treatment.
Earlier this year, Ms. O’Connor canceled a number of concerts because she said her son was suffering from a “life-threatening medical condition,” AFP reported. She also had a hysterectomy in August, which she mentioned in Sunday’s post.
“I could have been dead here for weeks already and they’d never have known. Because apparently I’m scum and deserve to be abandoned and treated like s—- just when I’ve had my womb and ovaries chopped out and my child is frighteningly sick,” she wrote.
In a separate post Sunday, Ms. O’Connor wrote: “Remember the one about the people who didn’t think about what might happen if they didn’t stop tormenting a cripple? They found out real hard ’how far is too far’ . They woke up next day as murderers, believing they’d gone to bed so high and mighty, and so superior to those they’d deemed ’unfit.’”
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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