Singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor was found safe Monday afternoon after being reported missing a day earlier in a northern suburb of Chicago.
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Police in the US city of Chicago say Irish singer and musician Sinead O’Connor has been found safe, and is no longer considered a missing person.
The police department in Wilmette, Illinois said it was “seeking to check the well-being of Sinead O’Connor”.
It was reported earlier that she was missing after not returning following a bike ride around Chicago. Police received a call from someone anxious for her well-being around 1 p.m. Sunday, the Chicago Tribune reported.
On Monday morning, O’Connor was found in a nearby hotel by police officers and was then taken to a hospital for a check up.
“Sweetheart, please contact someone, and let them know where you are, there are a lot of people anxious about you xx”, wrote Victoria Le-Fort. You stole my sons from me.
She has previously attempted suicide, leaving goodbye notes to her fans on Facebook and blaming members of her family for personal problems she has encountered.
On Friday, O’Connor wrote a lengthy Facebook post directed at Shane, encouraging him to fight to be taken out of child services and claiming that she could not fight anymore because “they hurt me too much”.
She told People that she was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and discovered that she had post-traumatic stress disorder in 2011.
Hours before, she had changed her Facebook profile picture and cover photo, showing an image of the American abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman accompanied by one of his quotes: “I had the right to one of two things, freedom or death”.
The singer became internationally popular with her song, “Nothing Compares 2 You”, which was written by the late star Prince. It’s unclear why O’Connor was in Wilmette, an upper-class suburb about 15 miles north of Chicago along Lake Michigan. “I have to back off because they are hurting me so badly I get unwell again if I go near them”, the distressed post read.
It has also happened in the context of O’Connor’s ongoing custody battle with her family over her 12-year old son Shane.
And last week she was in the news again after alleging United States comedian Arsenio Hall had supplied drugs to Prince, who died last month.
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She said in the letter she had been “Howling crying for weeks”.
