Sinéad O’Connor told children to “call my accountant” before emergency services in event of her death

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Sinéad O’Connor had told her children to contact her accountant before the emergency services in the event of her death.The musician and activist passed away at her home in London last Wednesday (July 26).

She was 56 years old. A cause of death is currently not known, but police said it is not being treated as suspicious.During a resurfaced 2021 interview with People, O’Connor explained that she’d thought about the importance of protecting her finances and art, and had instructed her children on what to do when she died.“See, when the artists are dead, they’re much more valuable than when they’re alive,” the singer said at the time. “Tupac has released way more albums since he died than he ever did alive, so it’s kind of gross what record companies do.”O’Connor continued: “That’s why I’ve always instructed my children since they were very small, ‘If your mother drops dead tomorrow, before you called 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don’t start releasing my records and not telling you where the money is’.”Since the news of O’Connor’s death, the likes of Garbage, Billy Corgan, Michael Stipe, Ice-T and Tori Amos have paid tribute.Elsewhere, Lily Allen said she was “incensed” by some of the “spineless” tributes coming in for the musician, suggesting that the same people would not have stood up for O’Connor while she was alive.Allen added: “It’s also troubling that people have seemingly felt so empathetic towards her but didn’t feel that they could show it or express it for some reason.

Until they died. What does that say about us?”Morrissey, meanwhile, criticised the music industry over the response to O’Connor’s death.