Russell Crowe recalls chance encounter with Sinéad O’Connor in moving tribute: ‘Oh, it’s you Russell’
27.07.2023 - 07:53
/ nypost.com
news of her death at age 56 on Wednesday.The “Gladiator” actor, 59, recalled a chance encounter he had with the singer outside a pub in Ireland last year in a moving essay posted on his social media.While working in Ireland — O’Connor’s homeland — last year, the actor said he was having drinks with pals outside a pub in Dalkey, located around 30 minutes from the capital city of Dublin, when a captivating woman walked by him.“Puffy parker zipped to the nape and her bowed head covered in a scarf,” he wrote of the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer.“There under streetlights with mist on my breath, I met Sinéad. She looked in my eyes, and uttered with disarming softness, ‘oh, it’s you Russell,'” the actor recalled.and pursued the woman.
Thirty metres down the road the friend and the woman embraced and he waived me over. There under streetlights with mist on my breath, I met Sinéad.
She looked in my eyes, and uttered with disarming softness “ oh, it’s you Russell”.“She came with us back to the table and sat in the cold and ordered a hot tea. In a conversation without fences we roamed through the recent Dublin heatwave, local politics, American politics,” wrote Crowe, who was born in New Zealand and grew up in Australia.“The ongoing fight for indigenous recognition in many places, but particularly in Australia, her warm memory of New Zealand, faith, music, movies and her brother the writer,” Crowe continued.“I had the opportunity to tell her she was a hero of mine.”Crowe went on to describe the sheer impact the “amazing” singer had on him following the random encounter that night.“When her second cup was taking on the night air, she rose, embraced us all and strode away into the fog-dimmed streetlights,” he wrote.
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