Sinéad O’Connor once told Rolling Stone, “I don’t do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble.” Always outspoken and never one to back down, Sinéad did occasionally run into trouble with her fellow stars. Prince With her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U”, Sinéad became a worldwide sensation.
And while Prince did once say he “loved” her version, the song would lead to a reported fight between the artists. As Sinéad told Norway’s NRK in 2014, “I made it without him.
I’d never met him. He summoned me to his house – and it’s foolish to do this to an Irish woman – he said he didn’t like me saying bad words in interviews.
So I told him to f*** off.” Sinéad added, “He got quite violent. I had to escape out of his house at 5 in the morning. He packed a bigger punch than mine.” After adding more details in her memoir Rememberings — including the tidbit that Prince repeatedly asked his butler to serve Sinéad soup she had already refused, and that he suggested the two have a pillow fight, before slipping a hard object into a pillow case — Sinéad maintained her defiance.
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