Irish musician Sinéad O'Connor was brought to the hospital after she dropped a suicidal post on Twitter just days after her 17-year-old son took his own life.
"I’ve decided to follow my son. There is no point living without him. Everything I touch, I ruin. I only stayed for him. And now he’s gone. I’ve destroyed my family. My kids don’t want to know me. I am a shit person. And you all only think I’m nice because I can sing. I’m not," the 55-year-old had tweeted.
In another tweet, the singer apologized for making such suicidal remarks and added that the police were taking her to a hospital for help.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I am with cops now on way to hospital."
“I'm sorry I upset everyone. I am lost without my kid and I hate myself. Hospital will help a while. But I’m going to find Shane. This is just a delay”
Sinéad’s teen son, Nevi’im Nesta Ali Shane O’Connor was apparently on suicide watch at a hospital in Dublin, the capital city of the republic, when he went missing on Jan. 6.
The Gardaí later confirmed that the search for Shane has ended. "Following the recovery of a body in the Bray area of Wicklow on Friday 7 Jan. 2022, a missing person appeal in respect of Shane O’Connor, 17 years, has been stood down," a spokesperson had told the Irish Mirror.
Sinéad had made statements blaming the hospital management for letting her son "out of their grasp."
She wrote: "How has a seventeen-year-old traumatized young person, who was on suicide watch, in Tallaght Hospital’s Lynn Ward been able to go missing???"
She had also launched a tirade against the Child and Family agency - Tulsa, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and the Irish state for 'failing' her son.
"Please don’t imagine I am less than keenly aware I failed my child, alongside Tusla and the HSE and the Irish State. We all failed him. Welcome to Ireland," she wrote, before hitting out at those saying her son was now 'at peace'."
"Suicide will not bring you peace. It is a lie. Therefore the next poor well-meaning sod who says to me about my son 'at least he is at peace now' is going to get their lights punched out. How does anyone know he’s at peace?"
"I can tell you his face was as tormented as it’s been for months. No difference at all."
"Message to Tusla, a storm is coming that you haven’t rehearsed for. Kids are dying in your care every day. Now my kid is one of them. Big mistake."
"My child has now been dead on Tusla’s watch for over 48 hours and the only contact I have had from anyone representing Tusla was yesterday from their media office, concerned for themselves over the negative publicity."
"A month ago Shane was brought to CAMHS after vanishing leaving suicide notes including detailed funeral plans. They discharged him. Said he had no plans. When objections were raised by the adult with him she was told ‘planning a funeral is no different to planning a wedding’."
"That was the CAMHS psychiatrist... I’m here to tell CAMHS that planning my child’s funeral is nothing remotely similar to planning his wedding. Which will now never happen. Because you’re unfit for purpose."
"Guess where my son learned to make the noose that hung him? He tried a week ago and I asked him… he told me he’d studied it on the computer IN THE KIDS’S psych hospital at Linndara. While he was being treated there for psychoses."
"I'm going to take private time now to grieve my son. When I am ready I will be telling exactly how the Irish State in the ignorant, evil, self-serving, lying forms of Tusla and the HSE enabled and facilitated his death. Magdalene Ireland never went away. Ask the youth."
"And any statement out of Tusla suggesting they a) did their best b) care or c) have deepest sympathies for anyone here but their lawyers, is a load of crap trap that has killed too many kids and it isn't going to wash this time. Too many kids are dying on Tusla's watch."
On Saturday, Jan. 15, Sinéad wore a bright pink sweatsuit to the Hindu funeral service held for Shane. She said that he would’ve "loved it".
"We just said goodbye to our beautiful angel, Shaney. Very lovely Hindu ceremony. Shane will have loved it," she shared.
"He was always chanting ‘Om. Shanti.’ I put a few packs of fags in the coffin for him in case there’s none in heaven. He’ll have loved that too. Om. Shanti.'" she said
"He began to study science at a college with the adults in Dublin, but he didn’t enjoy going there, so it didn’t last long."
"Shane is an extremely special character, very, very psychic and very, very spiritualized. When he was three, he asked me one day, ‘Were you in an earthquake when I was inside your tummy?’ At first I said no because I forgot that I had been."
"When he was two weeks in my belly — I didn’t even know I was pregnant — I was on holiday in Malta, and there was an earthquake. I never thought about it again, I never mentioned it."
"I never told the child; I don’t think I even told anyone else. Yet this three-year-old child was able to tell me I was in fact in an earthquake, and I don’t know how he knew this."
The singer has three other children: son Jake, 34, with her first husband John Reynolds, daughter Roisin, 25, with ex-boyfriend John Waters, and son Yeshua, 15, with Frank Bonadio.
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