Sinead O’Connor recalls heartbreaking moment she ‘lost her mind’ in new memoir

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Sinead O’Connor’s anticipated autobiography, Rememberings, is due to be released on 1 June and already the book is making headlines.

Sinead is sharing some deeply personal stories about her upbringing, and commentary about hugely impactful moments in Irish history.

The musician discussed details of her childhood and how her mother lost custody of her and her four siblings. In her book, Sinead reveals that her mother made them stay in a hut in the garden after her parents split as a child.

In an exclusive snippet from the book, shared with The Irish Times, she writes: ‘The reason my siblings and I lived with her [Sinead’s stepmother Viola] then was that my mother lost custody of us because the day my father left her, she put us to stay in a