Sinead O’Connor details terrifying night with Prince in her upcoming memoir

Sinead O’Connor has labelled Prince a 'violent abuser of women', detailing a terrifying night during which he allegedly attacked her at his home in LA.

Sinead O’Connor has detailed a terrifying night at late musician Prince's LA home, claiming he "thumped her" and chased her down the street in the middle of the night.

In her upcoming memoir, the Irish singer details a bizarre late-night bust-up during which the Purple Rain hit maker chased her with a pillow “filled with something hard”.

She said she was invited to dinner at his mansion but things took a turn when the pair clashed over her worldwide success with his song Nothing Compares 2U, which she recorded in 1990.

Sinead O'Connor made the shock claims against Prince on British morning television. Picture: ITV

In a profile piece for the New York Times, O'Connor said over the course of the dinner, Prince chastised her for swearing in interviews, then forced his butler to serve her soup even though she didn’t want it.

According to the publication, she then said he “sweetly suggested a pillow fight, only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase. When she escaped on foot in the middle of the night, she writes, he stalked her with his car, leapt out and chased her around the highway.”

“You’ve got to be crazy to be a musician,” O’Connor said. “But there’s a difference between being crazy and being a violent abuser of women.” 

It's not the first time the accusation has come to light, with O'Connor recounting the night with Prince in an appearance on Good Morning Britain in 2019.

When quizzed about their relationship on the show, she said: “We did meet once but we didn’t get on very well, we tried to beat each other up.

“Well, it was more he tried to beat me up and I was defending myself.

“It’s not a joke, it’s not a joke at all, it was a very frightening experience actually.”

Prince wrote Nothing Compares 2 U, the song that made Sinead O’Connor a global star. Picture: EPA

Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has one of music’s greatest voices. Picture: Supplied.

O’Connor was on the British morning show with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid to perform Nothing Compares 2 U, which was written by Prince.

Recalling the encounter in LA, she added: “He summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone, not knowing where I was.

“He summoned me there because he was uncomfortable with the fact I wasn’t a protege of his, I had just recorded the song, and he was wanting me to be a protege of his.

“He ordered that I don’t swear anymore in my interviews but Irish people swear all the time, of course I told him where he could go.”

O’Connor claims that’s when their confrontation turned physical.

“He went for me,” she said.

“Then he went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow and I ran out of his house.

“I was hiding behind a tree … he’s going this way in his car, we meet on the highway in Malibu at 5 o’clock in the morning.

“We were running around his car, I’m spitting at him and he’s trying to punch me, he’s got this pillow he’s trying to hit me with.

“Then I had to go and ring someone’s doorbell which is what my father always told me to do if I got in a situation like that.”

Sinead O'Connor in her 1990s heyday. Picture: Supplied

She then claimed: “He was into some pretty dark drugs … I never saw or heard from him again after that.”

She later added: “I’m not the only one he went at. One of the girls in his band was in hospital with broken ribs at the time.”

Prince was just 57 when he died of an accidental drug overdose.

Prince was 57 when he died after being found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Minnesota home on April 21, 2016.

Autopsy results revealed he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl — a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin.

Sinead O’Connor has recently been performing publicly again. Picture: AFP

O’Connor’s memoir, Rememberings, is out on June 1.

-With The Sun 

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