Sinead O’Connor’s last texts full of ‘despair and sorrow’: Bob Geldof

Rocker Bob Geldof, a very long time good friend of the late Sinead O’Connor, has spoken out about their final textual content trade. 

O’Connor died on Wednesday, July 26, at age 56. At current, no reason behind loss of life has been introduced, and the post-mortem outcomes will reportedly take “a number of weeks” to be delivered. 

Nevertheless, her 17-year-old son, Shane, died by suicide in January of 2022, and he or she later wrote on Twitter: “I’ve determined to comply with my son. There is no such thing as a level residing with out him.” 

Her final tweet earlier this month referenced Shane.

“Been residing as undead night time creature since,” she wrote. “He was the love of my life, the lamp of my soul.” 

In 2007, the Grammy-winning Irish singer revealed that she was battling bipolar dysfunction. 

Geldof, 71, was pleasant with O’Connor for over 30 years. On Saturday night time, he spoke about O’Connor at  on the Cavan Calling Pageant in Cavan, Eire, and shared with the viewers that that they had exchanged textual content messages two weeks earlier than her loss of life. 

“She was an excellent good friend of mine,” Geldof advised the gang, in accordance to the Independent. “We have been speaking proper as much as a few weeks in the past.”

“A number of the texts have been laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and a few have been ecstatically comfortable,” he stated. “She was like that.”

Their friendship dated again to their childhoods, since they lived solely 75 yards away from one another and took the identical bus to high school, according to The Irish Examiner. 

O’Connor, who’s survived by three youngsters and one grandchild, had a troubled and tragic youth, as she allegedly suffered abuse from her mom. 

“She ran a torture chamber,” O’Connor once tearfully told Dr. Phil of her late mother, Johanna O’Grady.

“My earliest reminiscence, she’s telling me I shouldn’t have been born. She didn’t need me … She was an individual who took delight, would smile in hurting you.”

When O’Connor famously and controversially ripped up an image of Pope John Paul II in 1992, to protest baby intercourse abuse rampant within the Catholic Church, she stated that it was the identical picture that had belonged to her mother. 

“My intention had all the time been to destroy my mom’s picture of the pope,” she wrote in her memoir. “It represented lies and liars and abuse. The kind of individuals who saved these items have been devils like my mom.”

“She is a pistol,” Geldof advised the gang, as he reminisced about O’Connor.  

“I needed to do a factor with ‘The New York Occasions’ about her, two years in the past, and I attempted to inform her about Maud Gonne, Yeats’ nice muse, love object, revolutionary girl — years forward of her time — who advised the reality, who was an ideal artist and who was a radical and an activist on the similar time,” stated Geldof. 

“And it’s not a very good comparability, however I stated the sense I’ve is that Sinéad is the Maud Gonne of our time, and doubtless simply as essential in fashionable Eire. She was relentless, she had a voice like none of us had ever heard, so pure.” 

He recontextualized O’Connor’s “SNL” Pope picture controversy as a result of he stated he believed it was impressed by him tearing up a photograph of John Travolta. 

“It was somewhat extra excessive than tearing up f**king disco,” he stated. “Tearing up the Vatican is an entire different factor, however extra right truly, I ought to have completed it…we have been simply speechless on how stunning, how good she was.”