Sinéad O’Connor’s final texts filled with ‘despair and sorrow’: Bob Geldof

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died on Wednesday, July 26, at age 56. At present, no cause of death has been announced, and the autopsy results will reportedly take “several weeks” to be delivered.

However, her 17-year-old son, Shane, died by suicide in January of 2022, and she later wrote on Twitter: “I’ve decided to follow my son.

There is no point living without him.” Her final tweet earlier this month referenced Shane.“Been living as undead night creature since,” she wrote. “He was the love of my life, the lamp of my soul.” In 2007, the Grammy-winning Irish singer revealed that she was battling bipolar disorder.

Geldof, 71, was friendly with O’Connor for over 30 years. On Saturday night, he spoke about O’Connor at the Cavan Calling festival in Cavan, Ireland, and shared with the audience that they had exchanged text messages two weeks before her death. “She was a very good friend of mine,” Geldof told the crowd, according to the Independent. “We were talking right up to a couple of weeks ago.”“Some of the texts were laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and some were ecstatically happy,” he said. “She was like that.”Their friendship dated back to their childhoods, since they lived only 75 yards away from each other and took the same bus to school, according to the Irish Examiner.