Police searching for Sinead O'Connor to check on well-being
UPDATE: Sinead O'Connor has been located and is safe.
Police are looking for singer Sinead O'Connor in Wilmette, Illinois, to perform a well-being check.
Wilmette police released a statement saying the singer left the Wilmette area for a bicycle ride at 6 a.m. on Sunday and has not been seen since. A caller expressed concern for O'Connor's well-being.
On Sunday, O'Connor posted a cryptic note on Facebook after she was last seen, apparently threatening her son, Jake Reynolds.
She wrote that Reynolds and her ex Donal Lunny took her son Shane Lunny from her. She wrote an open letter to Shane on Friday, advising him to get a solicitor of his own and that his father and Reynolds are "not [his] boss." In November, the singer accused Donal of "withholding" her child from her.
O'Connor wrote on Sunday, "Jake, kindly go to the court on Tuesday and take custody your brother from Tusla. My lawyer will be making the illegal way yourself and Donal got him into Tusla (lying to the cops etc) known to the judge. expect to be in trouble. In fact you'd best bring a lawyer of your own. And do not abandon your brother or any other of my babies again. What you have done to your brother and your mother is LITERALLY criminal."
Early Sunday morning, O'Connor also posted a photo of Harriet Tubman with text that said, "I have reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."
The singer has had a very troubled past year, particularly with her family. In November, she alarmed fans when she wrote what appeared to be a suicide note on Facebook, during which she said she had taken an overdose.
She wrote in the note, "There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear. What was done to me this week was appalling cruelty. By my husband, my family, by St Pats and by An Gardai Siochana, by my son, Jake and by Donal Lunny and Angela singleton, by my son's girlfriend, his friends... after everything I've been put through and been forced to go through alone .. And punished for having to go through since I had the surgery on August 26th. Or since Shane became unwell in March, This week has broken me. The withholding of my babies from me without any sound reason by their fathers, Frank and Donal, and by Jake and the rest of my family, is a horrific set of betrayals."
O'Connor was subsequently hospitalized.
In December, she wrote another troubling note on Facebook, begging her children to come visit her.
Most recently, O'Connor made headlines in May when she accused Arsenio Hall of giving Prince drugs. Hall is suing the singer for libel.
The singer has talked openly before about her bipolar diagnosis, which she received more than a decade ago. She spoke with Oprah Winfrey in 2007 and said that she had struggled with anxiety and suicidal thoughts before her diagnosis, and that while medication was helping her, "it's a work in progress."
