Ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on TV to protest the child sex abuse being quietly brushed under the carpet by the Catholic Church was her most infamous moment although knowing what we know now and John Paul II’s own involvement in concealing child molestation by priests under his authority,
she was way ahead of the curve on that one although plenty sided with the Church and publicly trashed her including Madonna and Joe Pesci who said if he had been there at the time he would have given her a slap.
She also feuded with Frank Sinatra after she refused the playing of 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at her shows and Miley Cyrus who Sinead considered: 'Behaved like a prostitute and called it feminism.'
Her most bizarre quarrel was with the man who wrote the song which made her famous, Prince.
In her memoirs she told how apparently the Purple One wasn't best pleased that her version knocked his own version into a cocked hat and that she wasn't appropriately fawning enough in her admiration of him so he called her to his home and gave her a furious dressing down, challenged her to a pillow fight, made her eat soup and when she tried to leave, Prince physically blocked her and dragged her toward his car, prompting her to flee on foot to a neighboring home.
At only 56 Sinead O’Connor has gone far too early but wherever she is, John Paul II had better keep out of her way.
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