A UK coroner’s judge said Tuesday that the Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor He died last July in London, aged 56, of “natural causes”.
The artist was found dead on July 26 in a house in the south of the British capital, the city where she had moved to live that month from her native Ireland.
A statement from Southwark Coroner’s Court confirmed on Tuesday that O’Connor “died of natural causes” and, therefore, the forensic judge “ended his involvement” in this matter.
A few days before her death, the Dublin singer had posted a message on her Facebook account to inform that she had moved to London and was finishing an album to release this year.
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The recently deceased Irish singer recorded the song on her album Am I Not Your Girl (1992).
This judicial body had already explained last July that it would carry out an autopsy to determine the causes of death, after the Metropolitan Police (MET) then announced that it was not considered “suspicious”.
In the days before her death, the Irish singer was finishing a new album, preparing a tour and planning to turn her autobiography into a film.
“Sinéad was finishing her latest album, reviewing dates for a new tour in 2024 and considering making a film adaptation of her autobiographical book Rememberings, published in 2021, her representatives Kenneth and Carl Papenfus said last July on the website of his agency, 67 Management.
The death of Sinéad O’Connor, who became famous throughout the world in 1990 with the song Nothing Compares 2 U, written by the American artist Prince, sparked an avalanche of tributes.
In 2022, his 17-year-old son Shane ended his days. Her death came as a blow and the singer was hospitalized after saying on social media that she too was thinking of killing herself.
The singer appeared in a video, published at the beginning of July on the social network Twitter, renamed “X”, in which she evoked her pain after her son’s suicide and declared that she wanted to finish a new album.
In addition to her music, the singer stood out for her fight against sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which she accused of not having sufficiently protected children. In 1992 you destroyed an image of Pope John Paul II on American television.
Source: Clarin