WATCH: Sinéad O’Connor's Suicidal Video Sparks Concerns For Her Safety
Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor's distressing video last week on her Facebook account, where she revealed being suicidal, has sparked concerns over her well-being, with many Twitter users praying for her safety as she lives alone in a New Jersey motel.
In the 12-minute video, the 50-year-old told her fans she was suffering from three mental illnesses, and urged her family to contact her as she was fighting each day to stay alive.
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"I am now living in a Travelodge motel in the a--- end of New Jersey," she said while sitting on the motel room bed. "I'm all by myself. And 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 f------ thing keeping me alive at the moment... and that's kind of pathetic."
After rambling on for some time, the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer said: "I want people to see what it’s like, mental illness is a bit like drugs, it doesn’t give a s--- who you are. ... And the people who are supposed to be loving you and taking care of you are treating you like s---."
O'Connor said she has been living alone for two years as a punishment for suffering from mental illnesses. She urged those watching the video to care for anyone who suffered from such illnesses.
"If you have a family member that suffers from mental illness, care for them, tenderness, love, care for them. Visit them in the hospital, don’t dump them in the hospital and bugger off," she said.
In a report Monday, NorthJersey.com said there was no record of O’Connor staying at the motel in South Hackensack, New Jersey.
This is not the first time O'Connor has shown signs of being suicidal. In June 2016, TMZ reported the singer had threatened to jump off a bridge in Chicago. However, O'Connor denied the rumors at the time, saying: "It's bull---- I jumped off a bridge. Some stupid b---- up at Swords Garda station [an Irish police station] decided she'd like to throw a bit of false and malicious gossip about is all."
In May 2016, Irish police feared she was suicidal after she wrote a cryptic Facebook post — in the form of an open letter — to John Reynolds, the father of her son Jake and slammed him for leaving her to die.
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“You tell that evil son of ours that a person who suffers from two f------ medical conditions, [where] the symptoms include suicidal compulsion, isn't being manipulative,” she wrote. “You all abandoned me for being suicidal… You left me to die.
“If you and my father had got what you pushed for, Jake wouldn't even f------ be alive. Only I fought because he was my baby, and I loved him, child as I was myself,” she said about her oldest son, who is 28 years old.
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