Sinead O’Connor‘s Facebook account has been removed from the site following a series of deeply personal posts in which the singer vented anger at family members and detailed her wish to take her own life.

Sinead O’Connor’s Facebook Account Removed

The episode began on Sunday when the “Nothing Compares 2 U” shared that she felt betrayed by by her ex-husbands and coparents – Donal Lunny and Frank Bonadio – as well as her eldest son Jake Reynolds. She felt they had mistreated her in the time since she underwent a hysterectomy last August. She accused the men of withholding her younger children, Shane Lunny, 11, and Yeshua Bonadio, 8 from her.

“I have taken an overdose,” O’Connor, 48, wrote in the shocking post. “There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I’m at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name.”

It was subsequently established that Gardaí had found the singer after an attempted overdose and she was “safe and well” and receiving medical care.

In a Tuesday post, possibly written from her hospital bed, however, O’Connor begged her children to see her, alleging that they had only visited her when she was on “life support” and not conscious.

“You haven’t been back. Please why are you doing these things to me??” O’Connor wrote on her wall. “I need you. I need your love. I can’t manage what’s being done to me. I didn’t do anything to deserve the way I’m being treated.

“To hear that you were here and left was agony,” the harrowing post continues. “Now I am utterly alone. Please. Please love me. Please come to the hospital and spend time with me and help Fix all this. Please. I’m. Begging you.

“Don’t leave me so frightened and alone. Don’t treat me like I’m not loved and am worth nothing. Please. If you love me even a little please come and be with me and help me understand what’s happening.

“I didn’t even have any clothes. I haven’t a thing. Please. Jake, Roisin (Daughter aged 19). All, please, come see me and make me feel like M loved. Help me instead of punishment. Please please I beg you come see me and help.”

Just before her account was shut down, presumably by concerned family members, the singer posted one final, chilling message.

“If a woman doesn’t first succeed… She’ll try, try again. iWantMyRightToDieAndIWillClaimIt.”

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