Irish singer Sinead O’Connor’s cause of death has been revealed six months after she died aged 56.
According to the London coroner’s office, the artist died from natural causes and the coroner has now “ceased their involvement in her death”.
O’Connor was found dead on July 26, 2023, after police responded to reports of an unresponsive woman at a residential address.
Her family confirmed the news in a devastating statement saying: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”
O’Connor crashed onto the global music scene with her mesmerising version of Nothing Compares 2 U, originally written by Prince and accompanied by a music video in which she faced directly into the camera and cried.
Known as much for her outspoken views on religion, sex, feminism and war as for her music, she will be remembered in some quarters for ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a 1992 television appearance on Saturday Night Live, declaring: “Fight the real enemy”.
Her criticisms of Catholicism were especially controversial in parts of Ireland but also a brave representation of a shift that was taking shape in society away from the Church, whose deep influence began to collapse later that decade over a string of clerical child sex abuse scandals.
O’Connor converted to Islam in 2018 and changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat, though continued to perform under the name Sinead O’Connor.
She posted on her official Facebook account on July 12 that she had recently moved back to London, was finishing an album, and intended to tour towards the end of 2024 and early 2025.
“Everyone wants a pop star, see?” O’Connor wrote in her 2021 memoir Rememberings. “But I am a protest singer. I just had stuff to get off my chest. I had no desire for fame.”
Her death was the second tragedy to rock the O’Connor family, with Sinead’s 17-year-old son dying just over a year earlier.
Shane O’Connor escaped a hospital, where he was on suicide watch, tragically taking his own life. In the aftermath, O’Connor reportedly struggled with her own mental health issues.
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