Missing Sinead O'Connor (RIP)

It's hard to believe that Prince could write so many great songs, like Sinead's greatest hit

The last months of Sinead O'Connor's life were tragic

(Grunge) July 29, 2023. Was Sinead a crypto-Buddhist? She sure seems influenced by the Dharma and dogged by the Catholicism she rejected.

Canceled shows, chronic pain, and inconsolable grief — ["Lost in the Bardo"] Sinéad O'Connor's last months were deeply challenging, but her tragic death suicide at the age of 56 shocked the world. Here's what we know.

• Leaving a legacy | 0:00
• Terrible grief | 1:33
• Canceled | 2:22
• A new album | 3:08
• Constant pain | 4:23
• Plans for a biopic | 5:39
• A major award | 6:36
• Moving to London | 7:49

Voiceover by: Jarman Day

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COMMENTARY

Dr. Gabor Mate's When the Body Says No explains why O'Connor had so many illnesses; it's the lasting result of enduring early childhood traumatic events. These incidents -- or our dysfunctional reactions to them -- live on for many years. It is our karma, our response to them, that has more to do with it than their happening to us. They happen to many, many people, but not everyone reacts in such a way to make the suffering unbearable. As Dr. Mate explains, not everyone who takes a drug becomes addicted, so drugs are not addictive. But nearly everyone who becomes addicted does so as a result of taking a drug (or engaging in a self-soothing behavior). Why is this? It is because of the presence of early childhood traumas in one's past. If they are there and we take a drug, we will become addicted. When the pain becomes too great, the BODY says no. It's not the mind, it's not all in one's head. The body is the storehouse of the trauma, and we either "work it out or act it out."

• We know many people will cry, "Blaming the victim!" But consider why this is a foolish thing to shout. No one is saying we have a say in what happens to us. What we say is what the Buddha taught: We have a say in what we do. What we do is OUR karma. That will have an effect on what we feel, think, and experience. The results of our present karma will impact us now and for many lives in the future. If you do one deed, skillful or unskillful, it bears results over and over again, exponentially. It will not be exhausted by occurring back to you once in the future. Each impulsion (javana) or mind-moment (citta) will bear fruit and ripen in the future. So each thought, each word, each physical act will give rise to countless results. And each result will provoke another reaction, so we will go in circles until we can change course and not react that way to a stimulus. We can hardly do that know knowing what we know. So imagine how unlikely it is that we're going to change course anytime in the near future. We will not know, we will not remember, we will not see a reason to change then. When we did know, did see, did have a reason, we could not change by an act of will. So every deed matters, adds up, piles on. We are heirs to our karma, children of our karma, affiliates of our karma. Think, speak, and act wisely and compassionately. It will do you good for a long, long time.

Suffering from fibromyalgia, agoraphobia, and bipolar disorder, O'Connor's was a life of pain.  That's not unusual in Ireland or any Catholic country. Catholicism is one jujubird of a F'd up religion. We at WQ known because many of us grew up Catholic and still suffer the consequences. #SineadOConnor #Singer #Musician

Why (the artist formerly known as) Prince had issues with Sinead O’Connor

(Sinnik22) Premiered Aug. 31, 2022. Sinead O’Connor has claimed that she faced a violent confrontation with Prince after securing her biggest hit with a cover of his song "Nothing Compares 2 U."

Tori Amos (RAINN) remembers childhood abuse survivor Sinead (7/26/23)

In a new interview with The New York Times, the Irish singer said the incident occurred when Prince invited O'Connor to his Hollywood mansion after the 1991 cover became a huge worldwide hit.

According to O’Connor, Prince “chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase.”

Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia -- who was married to the singer from 1996-2000 -- spoke out in the star’s defense, telling TMZ that he was never violent towards her or witnessed him being violent towards anyone.

Cat echoes Mayte’s sentiments in this episode. She arrived in Hollywood as Tara Leigh Patrick. Thanks to Prince, she emerged a star known as Carmen Electra.

“That first time I met Prince, he was very quiet,” she says. “I was very shy, so there was this awkward moment of us just kind of standing in front of each other. He broke the ice by ask­ing me if I wanted to play pool.”

Prince went to the piano and started playing "Do-Re-Mi" from The Sound of Music. “I had a feeling he thought I didn’t know the song, but it just so happened I had played Marta and Brigitta at two differ­ent dinner theatre productions of The Sound of Music in Cincinnati,” she says.

Then Electra danced for him -- the art in which she was most trained. Prince seemed impressed by her dancing, but days passed without her hearing back regarding the part in the band. Electra assumed she’d been rejected.

“I wound up getting my deal with Capitol Records, so I stayed in L.A. to record my demos,” she says. “During that time, I got a call from Prince, who said he’d heard I was recording and asked to hear my songs.” After playing the songs for him, Prince told her he could do better.

A few days later, she met him in a studio in L.A. “He wrote me a song called, ‘Carmen on Top.’” Should she like the song, she could record it. “I loved it, but I reminded him that my name was Tara. He told me, ‘You look like a Carmen so, to me, you’re Carmen.’”

Though the song was never released, the new name stuck. She was now officially Carmen Electra. Not long after, Electra accepted Prince’s invitation to move to Minneapolis and signed a record deal with Paisley Park Records.

Prince produced and wrote her first project, directed her videos, and styled her looks. Living at Paisley Park was utterly surreal, Electra wistfully recalls. “It looked like you were in heaven and a magical unicorn was going to come running around the corner,” she laughs. “Everything in Paisley Park was pastel and light and fluffy and dreamy. You just felt like you were in another world -- a world that Prince created.”