Sinead O’Connor has said that Prince once attacked her at his house in Malibu, Los Angeles and claims he left another woman ‘in hospital with broken ribs’. Stating that there are more women who were attacked by the late singer, she has encouraged them to share their stories.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain this morning, Sinead was asked about her relationship with Prince after performing ‘Nothing Compares 2U’, with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid asking if she had ever met the singer.
‘We met once but we didn't get on very well, we tried to beat each other up,’ she said, ‘Well it was more that he was trying to beat me up and I was defending myself.’
While she laughed uncomfortably through the story, the hosts asked her if she was joking to which she replied, ‘Oh no it's not a joke at all, it was a very frightening experience actually.’
‘He summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone not knowing where I was,’ the singer explained, ‘he was uncomfortable with the fact I wasn’t a protege of his and that I’d just recorded the song. He was wanting me to be a protege of his and ordered that I don’t swear in my interviews.
‘Of course, I told him where he could go and he went for me,’ she continued, ‘he went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow. I ran out of his house, I’m hiding behind a tree, he’s going this way in his car we meet on the highway in Malibu at five in the morning – I’m spitting at him, he’s trying to punch me. I had to go ring someone’s doorbell, which my father always told me to do if I was in a situation like that.’
Going on to explain the extent of Prince’s alleged abuse, she stated that she’s ‘not the only one he went at’ and that one of the women in his band ‘was in the hospital with broken ribs at the time’.
Alleging that Prince was ‘into some pretty dark drugs at the time’, she also said that she knew more women had been attacked by him and encouraged them to come forward.
Prince’s estate is yet to respond to the allegations.
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