IRISH singer Sinead O’Connor sparked global concern for her well-being after a Facebook post on her page said that she had “taken an overdose.”
The post was published yesterday, in which the outspoken musician appeared to have publicly declared that she was at an unspecified hotel in Ireland where she had taken an overdose as "there is only so much any woman can be expected to bear."
Gardaí in Dublin later confirmed O’Connor was “found safe and well" and that she was receiving medical treatment.
The authenticity of the posting has yet to be confirmed, but after it appeared, thousands of readers posted messages of concern for the 48-year-old and shared the post.
In the emotional Facebook message, references were made to the mother-of-four’s health and she accused her family of “appalling cruelty”, a battle against two of her ex-husbands to see her youngest children.
It read:
This week has broken me. The withholding of my babies from me without any sound reason by their fathers, Frank and Donal, and by Jake and the rest of my family, is a horrific set of betrayals. And has been going on since I had my surgery. The last two nights finished me off. I have taken an overdose. There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name.
If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they'd never have known. Because apparently I'm scum and deserve to be abandoned and treated like shit just when I've had my womb and ovaries chopped out and my child is frighteningly sick. I'm such a rotten horrible mother and Person, that I've been alone.
The singer had posted several earlier messages about the on-going custody battle over her children, also referencing their status as wards of the court.
O’Connor has previously spoken publicly about the stigma of mental health issues.
In an interview with Time magazine in 2013, she said that the media often make “a buffoonery and a mockery” of women who may have mental illnesses.
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