Sinead O’Connor has reversed her decision to retire after she announced all her tours would be cancelled with immediate effect.
The singer took to Twitter and used typically colourful language to explain her change of heart which also touched on her troubled past.
Sinead, 54, wrote: “Good news. F**k retiring. I retract. I was temporarily allowing pigs in lipstick to f**k my head up. 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.”
Sinead, who had an international hit in 1990 with the Prince-penned Nothing Compares 2 U, said BBC Women’s Hour left her feeling triggered last week.
She added it was unnecessary and hurtful to remind her of a statement someone wrote about her, calling her the “madwoman in the attic”.
The singer said some UK media facilitates abuse against her by using words such as “mad” to invalidate her.
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