What can this world do to help her?
SINEAD O’Connor has been admitted to hospital days after her teenage son tragically died.
The singer and mother tweeted that she had gone to hospital after feeling “lost” without her son Shane, 17.
Here at The Society our hearts go out to her and we call for you to share your thoughts and, if you pray, your payers.
She wrote: “I’m lost without my child and I hate myself. The hospital will help me for a while. But I’ll eventually find Shane. It’s only a matter of time,”
She also said she intended to “follow” her son because “there is no point in living without him”.
“Everything I touch, I ruin it. I stayed only for him. And now he’s gone. I destroyed my family. My children don’t want to know me,”
Sinead explained that she felt responsible for her son’s suicide. She wrote:
“It’s nobody’s fault but mine. Shane’s death is no one’s fault except mine. Mine is nobody’s fault except mine. I don’t want to be in a world without my Shane and my other children. I don’t deserve to live. It’s my fault. No one else,”
Shane’s body was found two days after a search was carried out in Dublin. Since her son’s death, the singer has shared details of his funeral wishes,saying she would follow his requests. “Shane was a Hindu. The funeral will be celebrated only in the presence of her mother and father, she confided. This was also the wish expressed by Shane in his suicide notes.”
I met Sinead briefly in the 1990s in a pub in Birmingham. A friend of mine was writing about her … she was still a star with the ability to shine over her own narrowing horizons. Sinead was enigmatic, mysterious, vulnerable and gentle. Nothing like the firebrand of skewed politics and skinless tub thumping she was becoming known for.
She sipped her drink but smoked heavily. Her fingers were brown. She had a fashionable gypsy quality back then and I liked her.
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