Sinead 'safe' after posting drug overdose on Facebook
Sinead O'Connor is safe and receiving medical treatment, Irish media reported yesterday after a message about her taking an overdose was posted on the Irish singer's Facebook page. O'Connor, who topped the global charts 25 years ago with Prince's song Nothing Compares 2 U, posted the message on her Facebook account while she said she was in a hotel in Ireland under another name."I have taken an overdose. There is no other way to get respect," the post read."If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. I'm such a rotten horrible mother and person, that I've been alone. Howling crying for weeks. I'm invisible. I don't matter a shred to anyone." A spokesman for O'Connor said she had no comment to make at the moment.Quoting Irish police, the Irish Examiner newspaper said the singer had been located "safe and sound".O'Connor, who once famously tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on the Saturday Night Live television show, declaring "Fight the real enemy!", cancelled her most recent tour in July due to illness. ..
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