Sinead O’Connor ‘safe’ after posting apparent suicide note

Sinead O’Connor is reportedly safe after posting an apparent suicide note on her Facebook page Sunday.

The Irish singer and songwriter posted what sounded very much like a suicide note, writing: “There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear... 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
.” (Her full Facebook post appears below.)

However, according to the Irish website breakingnews.ir, an unidentified spokesman for An Gardai Siochana, the national Irish police force, has indicated O’Connor hs been found “safe and sound.” The police spokesman at Dublin’s Pearse Street police station, breakingnews.ir reported, “confirmed that singer Sinead O’Connor has been located ‘safe and sound’ and is receiving medical assistance.”

No other details were available, as of this writing, regarding O’Connor’s condition, whether she had taken an overdose, or where she was found.

O’Connor, 48, canceled her 2015 summer concert tour. She was, according to a statement issued at the time by her booking agent, “suffering from exhaustion due to an existing not resolved medical situation and she has been advised by the doctor to stop any activity and rest. Because of this she is completely unable to travel and to perform.”

In what may be a related development, the singer announced Saturday on her Facebook page that she was quitting the music industry and looking for another job, after undergoing a hysterectomy that led, she wrote, to her being placed on suicide watch.

“I need a new home. And a new job. A new life,” O’Connor wrote in a Facebook post that preceded her apparent suicide note. “Music is over for me. Music did this. It rendered me invisible. Murdered my soul. I’m never going back to music...

“Desperately in need of a job and a place to live. Can anyone help? I got depressed after the hysterectomy because I got left all alone to recover. Now Im pariah because I got depressed. Me and my PTSD, or depression, which ANY woman would be suffering from since this all kicked off in March and I dealt with it alone. But I have a HUGE spirit which wants to live. And a HUGE heart full of love.”

O’Connor’s apparent suicide note takes aim at a number of people, including Irish folk musician Donal Lunny. He is the father of her youngest son, Shane, who Lunny apparently will not allow her to see.

O’Connor spoke at length about her life, music and the series of controversies surrounding her during a late 2013 interview with the Union-Tribune.

Below is her complete, unedited Facebook post, in which she states she has taken an overdose. It contains a number of profanities.

“There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear. What was done to me this week was appalling cruelty. By my husband, my family, by St Pats and by An Gardai Siochana, by my son, Jake and by Donal Lunny and Angela singleton, by my son’s girlfriend, his friends... after everything I’ve been put through and been forced to go through alone .. And punished for having to go through since I had the surgery on August 26th. Or since Shane became unwell in March, 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. Howling crying for weeks. And been told by them all t go fuck myself. I’m invisible. I don’t matter a shred to anyone. No one has come near me. I’ve died a million times already with the pain of it. So yeah.. Strangers like me.. But my family don’t value me at all. They wouldn’t know if I was dead until weeks from now if I wasn’t fucking informing them now. 
well done guys, you’ve finally got rid of me. Sorry the penny didn’t drop sooner. I’m an idiot. When you planned to get me away from my babies did you plan for me losing my mind over it? It being the final straw? For how you’re gonna explain why I died? Make sure you tell the truth. BARRY.. THEY WONT. YOURE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS ME OR THE TRUTH. PLEASE STAND FOR ME AND TELL IT. i can’t play twister. My children don’t care if I live r die anyway. Neither do their dads. Everyone is better off. Never ever do this to a woman again. Let this be your lesson. I survived it when John waters did it.. I can’t survive Jake doing it.”