Sinéad O'Connor has issued a statement where she performs a U-turn on her decision to retire.
The legendary Irish star announced that all her tours would be cancelled with immediate effect over the weekend.
But taking to Twitter last night, Sinead says she's not quite done yet.
The singer has posted a lengthy statement explaining her reasoning for pre-maturely announcing her retirement, stating that she was letting "pigs in lipstick... f**k my head up".
O'Connor's statement is as colourful as you would expect- and she warns that in her tweet, which fully reads: " Good news. F**k retiring. I retract. Am not retiring. I was temporarily allowing pigs in lipstick to f**k my head up... here's my statement..... in the form of these three photos. It's 'colourful' but that's me."
Sinéad states that: "When I embarked upon promo for my book, I ought to have had a counsellor on board. Because I hadn't realised how much talking about the past, particularly my experience of abuse not only as a child, but as a legally vulnerable adult. Abuse which takes the form of in particular some UK media either using their knowledge that I am legally vulnerable to invalidate, disrespect, hurt, deride, or generally treat me like a dancing Russian bear, would trigger so much emotional catharsis.
"See, at the time the UK media began abusing me, and while it continued, I was too busy surviving it to notice how I felt about it. Same with being a survivor of violence in childhood," Sineád continued, saying that, "if my three medical conditions were physical rather than emotional/psychological, they would not be used to define me, invalidate me, insult me, laugh at me or act as boots with which to trod on me."
The singer continued to state that the UK media consistently "grill her" instead of asking any number of things they could talk to her about, and she says they have been attacking her about having four kids with four different fathers, using harmful slurs like "horn dog."
The singer says that BBC Women's Hour left her feeling triggered last week, saying it was unnecessary and hurtful to remind her of a statement that an Irishman wrote about her, calling her the 'madwoman in the attic."
