Bob Geldof reveals Sinead O’Connor sent him texts laden with desperation…days before her death
Sir Bob Geldof has revealed that he was in touch with Sinead O'Connor just before she was found dead, calling her a 'great woman' who was 'full of a terrible loneliness'.
The singer, 71, said her text messages in recent weeks had been a mix of ‘desperation and despair’ as well as full of hope as she wrote new songs.
Sir Bob, who was performing at the Cavan Calling festival in Ireland over the weekend, paid a tribute to his friend, who died aged 56 last Wednesday.
He said: ‘She meant a lot to everybody, she meant a lot to us. Her voice represented her soul and spirit. And whenever we hear that, we will always be with a great woman’.
Neighbours of Ms O’Connor have said that she had been struggling with the suicide of her son Shane last year and had recently moved to London from Ireland because of loneliness.
But in her final Twitter video from her new flat near Brixton, the singer had revealed that she was writing new material and planning a tour in the UK, Ireland and in Australasia.
Sir Bob told fans: ‘There’s no other option, as all of you know, than to just keep on. Many, many times Sinead was full of a terrible loneliness and a terrible despair.
‘She was a very good friend of mine. We were talking right up to a couple of weeks ago. Some of her texts were laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and some were ecstatically happy. She was like that.’
