Bob Geldof recalls last texts with Sinead O’Connor: ‘She was a very good friend of mine’

Bob Geldof has shared some perception into the character of his ultimate messages with Sinead O’Connor, who died last week aged 56.

The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer was discovered unresponsive at an tackle in London, her household confirmed on Wednesday (26 July). A trigger of dying has not but been introduced however police are treating the circumstances as unsuspicious.

After O’Connor’s 17-year-old son Shane died by suicide in January 2022, she sometimes shared her grief on social media. Days earlier than she died, the Irish star revealed a heartfelt publish about his loss.

Geldof had been a friend of O’Connor for a number of years. Throughout his look at Cavan Calling competition in Eire on the weekend, the singer and activist took a second to recollect O’Connor, and spoke of how she skilled moments of excessive unhappiness as just lately as “a couple of weeks in the past”.

“There’s no different possibility, as all of you realize, than to only carry on,” he instructed the gang, in line with The Mirror.

“Many, many occasions Sinead was full of a horrible loneliness and a horrible despair. She was a very good friend of mine. We had been speaking proper as much as a couple of weeks in the past. Some of her texts had been laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and a few had been ecstatically blissful. She was like that.”

O’Connor spoke about dwelling with bipolar dysfunction throughout a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2007, explaining how she suffered from suicidal ideas.

“I don’t suppose I was born with bipolar dysfunction – I imagine it was created as a consequence of the violence I skilled,” she instructed Winfrey, referring to the abuse she’d skilled from her mom as a baby.

Later, in 2013, O’Connor instructed followers that she’d been misdiagnosed and that she was as an alternative affected by post-traumatic stress dysfunction as a consequence of the abuse she suffered.

Like O’Connor, Geldof, 71, had additionally skilled the dying of one of his kids. His daughter Peaches died aged 25 in 2014 of a heroin overdose, and her mom, the presenter and author Paula Yates, died in the identical method in 2000.

The “I Don’t Like Mondays” singer went on to reward O’Connor’s outspokenness and bravado, referring to her tearing up a image of the Pope on Saturday Evening Dwell in 1992 in protest of baby sexual abuse throughout the Catholic Church.

In accordance with Geldof, O’Connor had been impressed to take this particular motion after Geldof and his band, The Boomtown Rats, tore up photographs of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on High of the Pops in celebration of them changing them at No 1 on the charts.

“It was a little extra excessive than tearing up f***ing disco,” Geldof mentioned. “She noticed us on the Late Late [Show] kicking off concerning the Church and all that stuff, and he or she was thrilled by it. So, we love her very a lot.

“It’s not possible, some of us watched her this afternoon on the internet and we had been simply speechless on how lovely, how good she was.”

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