What do you do if you are Kim Kardashian and people are making fun of you for ending your marriage after only 72 days? You wait for another celeb to take the pressure off you.
That person, in this particular case, is Sinead O’Connor. O’Connor hit the big time in 1990 with the Prince pinned hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.” But, her U.S fame was short lived. Later that year, O’Connor threatened to boycott her own concert if the U.S. national anthem was played before the concert. Frank Sinatra threatened her with physical violence and off she was on her way to more controversy.
In 1992, O’Connor appeared on “Saturday Night Live” as the musical guest. But, during her performance of “War,” she ripped a photo of Pope John Paul II to pieces while singing the word “evil.” She then said, “Fight the real enemy.” This performance was a jab at the Catholic Church for the child abuse cases by priests.
She befriended herself to very few with that performance. Since the show didn’t know she was going to do this, NBC Vice President of Late Night Rick Ludwin and “Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels were upset, with Michaels calling it “a betrayal.” Viewers flooded NBC with calls to complain, Joe Pesci publically said he wanted to punch her, and needless to say, the Catholic Church wasn’t happy either. The performance has not been aired since on SNL.
So, O’Connor, who later became an ordain priest for the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church, faded into the background and most Americans forgot about her.
That is until recently. On December 9th, O’Connor married her fourth husband, Irish therapist Barry Herridge. Photos of the couple’s Las Vegas wedding with O’Connor in her pink wedding dress in front of a pink Cadillac flooded the Internet. Ah, look at little Sinead, older, wiser, and finally happy.
Except today when she announced she was ending the 17 day marriage. As if that weren’t bad enough, O’Connor mentioned that the two had only lived together for a week.
Why the quick breakup? Within hours of the wedding, O’Connor said that people in Herridge’s life ruined the marriage. She said, Herridge was affected by her looking for weed to smoke the night of their wedding and “It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me, he would be losing too much to bear.” Whatever that means.
She followed her statement up with other hubbub such as “A woman wants to be a joy to her husband. So..U love someone? Set them free” and that her husband was a wonderful man that she still loved very much. She also said they rushed into getting married, which to me sounds like the most reasonable reason for the split.