Save me, pleads ‘suicidal’ Sinead
FRIENDS rallied around troubled singer Sinead O’Connor last night after she revealed that she felt alone and suicidal.
The Irish singer, who is in the US, posted a tearful video on Facebook saying, “My whole life is revolving around just not dying.”
She told of her life in a hotel room in New Jersey and spoke about how she felt alone, criticising her family for not taking better care of her.
Police said they tried to visit Sinead, 50, but she was not in her room. Friends yesterday said the mother-of-four is safe and “receiving the best of care”.
A message posted on her Facebook page said: “I am posting at Sinead’s request, to let everyone who loves her know she is safe, and she is not suicidal.
“She is surrounded by love and receiving the best of care. She asked for this to be posted, knowing you are concerned for her.”
Fellow singer Annie Lennox said: “I just watched this truly distressing call for help by Sinead O’Connor, from a motel room in New Jersey, where she says there’s no one there to help her, with the exception of a psychiatrist and a doctor. I realise that Sinead has some serious mental health issues but she appears to be completely out on a limb and I’m concerned for her safety.
“Are there no close friends or family who could be with her to give her some loving support? It is terrible to see her in such a vulnerable state.” Sinead rose to fame in 1990 with the smash hit single Nothing Compares 2 U.
But she has revealed she suffers from three mental illnesses. In 2007 she told US TV host Oprah Winfrey she was diagnosed with bipolar disease and had tried to kill herself on her 33rd birthday.
Friends and fans became worried again after the star posted the tearful video on her Facebook page.
She said: “Three ******* illnesses made me suicidal ... my whole life is revolving around just not dying. And I’m not going to die, I’m not going to die but still this is no way for people to be living. I’m not doing this for me. I’m staying alive for the people that are doing this to me. If it was me, I’d be gone.” The singer-song- writer claimed she was being “treated like **** ” by family members who are “refusing” to take care of her.
She said: “It’s like a witch-hunt. They are pointing the finger saying, ‘See, see, this is why’.
“I’m fighting and fighting and fighting like all the millions of people. If it was just for me I’d be gone. Straight away back to my mum... because I’ve walked this earth alone for two years now as punishment for being mentally ******* ill and getting angry that no one would ******* take care of me.”
Sinead said she uploaded the video to help people understand mental illness. She said: “Mental illness, it’s like drugs, it doesn’t [care] who you are, and equally what’s worse, the stigma doesn’t care who you are.
“There’s absolutely nobody in my life except my doctor, my psychiatrist – the sweetest man on earth, who says I’m his hero and that’s about the only thing keeping me alive at the moment... and that’s kind of pathetic.”
Sinead – who has four children from different relationships – sparked a police hunt last June after disappearing from a Chicago suburb. She was reported missing after failing to return from a bike ride. Authorities feared she was suicidal.