Sinead O'Connor News: 'Nothing Compares 2U' Singer Reveals Her Mother Abused Her as a Child
Sinead O'Connor has revealed the physical, emotional, mental, and sexual abuse she went through in the hands of her mother when she was still a child.
After posting a disturbing video on Facebook last month where O'Connor pleaded for help, the former singer who was catapulted to fame in the '90s via her single "Nothing Compares 2U" finally bared her past in a tell-all one-on-one interview on "Dr. Phil," hosted by Dr. Phil McGraw.
In the interview, O'Connor detailed the abuses she experienced as a child in the hands of no less than her mother, Marie, who according to the singer, just hated her because she was not a boy.
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"My earliest memory was her telling me I shouldn't be born. She didn't want me — she didn't want girls, she wanted me to be a boy. She treated me like a boy, she chopped my hair off. Whenever she beat me, which was daily, she made me take my clothes off and lie naked on the floor, my arms and legs open. She would attack my abdomen, wanting to burst my womb and destroy my reproductive system. She wanted me to stop me being a female," O'Connor said.
O'Connor revealed that one time, she lamented that she was missing her father, who by then, was already separated from her mother. Allegedly, it prompted Marie to force the then eight-year old O'Connor to live for months in a shed her father had built in the garden.
The singer alleged that Marie would smile while beating her and would let her repeat "I'm nothing" over and over again. With this, O'Connor can't help but suspect that her mother could be a sadist, a pedophile, or was even possessed by the devil.
Despite the unbelievable physical, mental, sexual, and emotional torture her mother put her through, O'Connor admitted that she misses her mother, who died in a car crash when the singer was only 19. According to O'Connor, she hatesthat she was not able to love Marie and was not able to take good care of her, which she suspects could be the reason she has suicidal tendencies.
"I cannot wait for the day when I actually get to heaven so that I can see my mother again," O' Connor said.
O'Connor is currently at a mental health facility where she is being treated and where her "Dr. Phil" interview was conducted.
