Irish-born singer Sinead O’Conner has been reported missing in a Chicago suburb, USA Today reported.
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O’Connor is now being sued by former late night host Arsenio Hall for comments she made about him in the wake of Prince’s death.
Wilmette police released a statement Monday after O’Connor failed to return from a bicycle ride.
Someone that knows her alerted police and the authorities, who then hunted for O’Connor in an operation they treated as a “possible suicide” and which included searches of places she could possibly have gone, like parks and beaches.
Later that day, police in Ireland confirmed that they had found the singer “safe and sound” and said that she was receiving medical care.
Police said no other information was immediately available.
Police in Wilmette, Illinois, had voiced concern for the safety of O’Connor, who has anxious many fans with recent Facebook postings that sounded suicidal. Last year, O’Connor posted a message on her Facebook page that suggested that she was taking her life and came after several social media posts about personal troubles. After losing consciousness and later waking up in a local hospital, O’Connor accused her family of being hypocrites for visiting her but leaving before she woke up. Six months ago, she said in a grief-wracked Facebook post that she had deliberately taken a drug overdose. “What you have done to your brother and your mother is literally criminal”, she wrote in her post.
The singer became internationally popular with her song, “Nothing Compares 2 You”, which was written by the late star Prince. She also posted another timeline post addressed to her 12 years old son Shane in which she told him that she loved him.
O’Connor also wrote in her November post that Reynolds, 28, had caused her despair.
O’Connor, 49, recently made scathing accusations against TV host Arsenio Hall in relation to Prince’s death.
But perhaps the controversial singer became more infamous when she tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live” back in 1992.
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According to The Daily Mail, the “Tusla” she mentions is a child protective service of Ireland.
