Sinéad O’Connor’s tragic life: Childhood ‘torture,’ son’s death and 4 marriages
26.07.2023 - 21:31
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died Wednesday at age 56, hit headlines for her four failed marriages, her battle with bipolar disorder and the tragic 2022 death of her teenage son Shane. But the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer’s troubles began long before she shot to fame in the late 1980s, as she endured a childhood filled with abuse at the hands of her mother. “She ran a torture chamber,” O’Connor once tearfully told Dr.
Phil of her late mom, Johanna O’Grady. “My earliest memory, she’s telling me I shouldn’t have been born. She didn’t want me … She was a person who took delight, would smile in hurting you.”The songstress alleged that her mother’s physical and emotional abuse continued until she ran away from home at the age of 13.
However, O’Connor’s problems were just beginning. Two years later, the troubled teen was convicted of shoplifting and was subsequently forced to spend 18 months in an asylum for “fallen women.”“I have never — and probably will never — experience such panic and terror and agony over anything,” O’Connor recalled of the harrowing experience in an interview with Spin magazine.In 1985, when O’Connor was 18, her life took another tragic turn when her abusive mom died after losing control of her car on an icy road and crashing into a bus. The death left the singer struggling with conflicted feelings about her problematic parent.
“I hate not being able to love her,” O’Connor revealed in 2017, saying she had finally forgiven her mother for her abuse. “I hate that I can’t put my arms around her and tell her I love her and tell her she’s all right and mother her. I would have taken care of her because she’s an absolute monster.“I miss her horribly and I really ache for her,” she continued.
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