Sinead O’Connor pleads for help in video

Singer opened up about her mental illness in a rambling Facebook video posted from a motel she was living in.

Sinead O’Connor emotionally pleaded for help from her family and opened up about her mental illness in a rambling Facebook video posted from a New Jersey motel she had been living in.

The video is the latest public glimpse of O’Connor’s ongoing mental health problems. The 50-year-old Irish singer says in the video posted Thursday that she was staying alive for the sake of others, like her psychiatrist, and if it were up to her, she’d “be gone.”

“I’m fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting — like all the millions and millions that I know I’m one of — to stay alive every day,” she said in the video.

O’Connor lamented what she described is a lack of support from loved ones, saying that “strangers on Facebook” are kinder to her than her own family. She asked her adult children and their fathers to make an effort to bring her home to Ireland.

O’Connor said she was living in a New Jersey Travelodge and later posted the address of a Travelodge in South Hackensack.

South Hackensack Police Capt. Robert Kaiser said Tuesday that officers conducted a welfare check, but O’Connor wasn’t in her room at the time. He said she is no longer staying there.

A follow-up Facebook post on O’Connor’s page late Monday, said to be made on the singer’s behalf, said the singer is safe and not suicidal. “She is surrounded by love and receiving the best of care,” the post read.

Sinead O’Connor performs during the Italian State RAI TV program “Che Tempo che Fa”, in Milan, Italy, in 2014.