Sinead O’Connor’s Friend Bob Geldof Reveals Details Of Her Final Texts To Him Before Her Tragic Death

Bob Geldof told fans that some of Sinead O'Connor's final texts before her passing were 'laden with desperation and despair'

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00:00Sinead O'Connor's longtime friend and fellow artist Bob Geldof remembered her while performing over the weekend in Ireland.

00:06The singer took a moment to recall his childhood neighbor, telling the crowd at the Cave-In Calling Festival,

00:12many, many times Sinead was full of terrible loneliness and a terrible despair.

00:16She was a very good friend of mine.

00:18He added that they were talking right up to a couple of weeks ago,

00:21describing some of her texts as laden with desperation and despair, and others ecstatically happy.

00:27Recall Sinead passed away last Wednesday at the age of 56 years old.

00:32The Nothing Compares to You singer opened up about her mental health struggles throughout the years

00:36and lost her son Shane to suicide in 2022.

00:40Bob went on to describe his late friend as a great artist and a radical and an activist at the same time,

00:46before going on to perform the song Mary of the Fourth Form in her memory.