Sinead O’Connor says Prince attacked her at his Hollywood home
“You have to be crazy to be a musician, but there is a difference between being crazy and violently abusing women”
Sinead O’Connor has claimed that she faced a violent confrontation with him after she achieved her biggest hit with the cover of Prince’s song ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.
In a new interview with The New York Times, the Irish singer stated that the incident occurred when Prince invited him to his Hollywood mansion after the 1991 cover became a huge hit.
According to O’Connor, Prince “followed her to the oath in the interview, harassing her butler to serve her soup, though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight. So that he slips her into his pillow. “
After allegedly running away from the house at midnight, the prince is said to have “chased, leaped and chased her around the highway” from her car.
O’Connor said: “You have to be crazy to be a musician, but there is a difference between being crazy and violently abusing women.”
His latest account of meeting Prince is with the same account he gave to The Mirror in 2007.
O’Connor said at the time, “He invited me to his home in Los Angeles and started giving me for swearing in interviews.” “When I asked him to fuck himself, he got very upset and physically very dangerous. I had to run away.”
He later said: “He can pack a punch. A few blows were exchanged. I could just spit. I spit on him a lot.”
She repeated similar claims to a singer trying to “beat her up” on Good Morning Britain in 2019.
In 2018, Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia – who was married to the singer from 1996–2000 – spoke out in defense of the star, telling TMZ that he was never violent towards her or saw her as violent towards anyone.
O’Connor was speaking before the release of the new memoir Remembering.
Last December, O’Connor also confirmed that in 2021 she would be releasing her first album in seven years.