Lionel Nation - Sinéad O Connor: Incredible Talent, Entertainment Industry Victim and Mental Illness Tragedy
Aired: 2023-07-30
Duration: 09:40


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[00:01:32]  All right, dear friends.
[00:01:35]  We're going to be doing another round of this.
[00:01:37]  We're calling this the Summit.
[00:01:38]  I don't know why.
[00:01:39]  I just like the sound of it.
[00:01:40]  Mrs. L and I were talking about something, and she has something very, very important I want you to hear about involving Sinead O'Connor.
[00:01:47]  Very, very sad story of an incredible talent, but you don't need me to explain this.
[00:01:53]  Explain your position.
[00:01:55]  Well, Sinead was a wonderful talent who was never, in my opinion, given her due.
[00:02:04]  We have to go back to her childhood.
[00:02:06]  She was, at the hands of her mother, a victim of terrible, terrible child abuse.

=== Nothing Compares You (07:33) ===

[00:02:11]  She was put into a special school as a child, young teen, and was what she called herself a problem child, a problem teen.
[00:02:24]  And one day, as the story goes, there was a nun.
[00:02:27]  This was a school in Ireland run by nuns.
[00:02:30]  A nun gave her a guitar.
[00:02:32]  And she really took to the guitar, she took to singing, and the nun decided, this young girl has talent, this young teen.
[00:02:40]  And it just snowballed, and she got her involved, and she ended up in the music business.
[00:02:46]  And she had that great first album out, that song, Nothing Can Compare to You.
[00:02:53]  No, Nothing...
[00:02:54]  Nothing Compares You.
[00:02:56]  Nothing Compares You, sorry.
[00:03:00]  For a little bit, she was the toast of the town.
[00:03:02]  She always admitted that she had severe mental health problems due to her childhood from as far back as she can remember being abused, a problematic family.
[00:03:12]  So now, fast forward, she's in the music business.
[00:03:14]  And I know so many women, now women, who started as teens or even just as young women in the entertainment field, especially in the music business, because I started straight out of school into the music business.
[00:03:29]  Just so abused the entire business.
[00:03:33]  And for Sinead to not be given any kind of support.
[00:03:39]  Now let's fast forward to she went on Saturday Night Live in 1992.
[00:03:43]  And at the end of her performance, she ripped up a picture of the Pope.
[00:03:49]  And from that point forward, she was kind of blacklisted, not welcomed, nothing.
[00:03:55]  Now, let's fast forward again.
[00:03:58]  What I want to say about ripping up that picture of the Pope, this is my opinion.
[00:04:04]  In retrospect and knowing everything I know now and learning and reading and things that have come out in that 31 years, she was correct at her message.
[00:04:15]  She was trying to use her platform to get a message through about all the child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
[00:04:22]  But now we'll fast forward to Miley Cyrus, who claims...
[00:04:28]  For her big hit where she was swinging naked on a big ball, Wrecking Ball was the name of the song, that her inspiration was Sinead O 'Connor.
[00:04:37]  So Sinead, seeing that she was naked on a ball, wrote her a very nice letter saying, this comes from love and as a mother, this comes to you.
[00:04:48]  Don't let them exploit you.
[00:04:51]  And what did Miley Cyrus do, who claimed Sinead was her mentor for this song?
[00:04:56]  She put out in the public and all over social media, oh, this crazy, what's the family show?
[00:05:01]  I don't want to curse, you know, B-I-T-C-H, you know, laughing at her, mocking her, and seemingly just dismissing her.
[00:05:09]  That was that.
[00:05:09]  And Sinead had a very sad life.
[00:05:11]  Four children and her son a couple of years ago, 17 years old, killed himself.
[00:05:16]  And she never could get over, in her own words, all of this just devastation upon devastation.
[00:05:24]  And I know one time, do you remember she was found the site of Ruford, Jersey, in a motel.
[00:05:30]  In a very, the kind of motel where prostitutes used to go off the George Washington Bridge.
[00:05:38]  And it was such a weird story.
[00:05:40]  Like, I don't know how she ended up there.
[00:05:42]  There was never any follow-up.
[00:05:44]  Who was taking care of her kids.
[00:05:46]  But the story coming out today, neighbors of hers, she lived in a very nice building in London.
[00:05:52]  She wanted to get out of Ireland, away from all of that.
[00:05:55]  Lived in a very nice area, nice apartment building.
[00:05:58]  And she talked to her neighbors.
[00:06:00]  They said they would see her smoking.
[00:06:02]  You know, and she'd chit-chat with everybody.
[00:06:04]  They had no idea who she even was.
[00:06:06]  But they said she was a very nice woman, and she was very friendly, and she talked to people.
[00:06:10]  So, all in all, a tragedy, a sad life.
[00:06:13]  But the point of this whole thing is, she admitted to being mentally ill.
[00:06:20]  Mental health problems.
[00:06:22]  She was trying to heal herself.
[00:06:24]  She did go to doctors who diagnosed her as bipolar.
[00:06:28]  And this is just a very sad life for a woman who I think is very talented.
[00:06:32]  At 56 years old, we don't really know the cause of death.
[00:06:35]  Nobody has really told us the cause of death, but I can only imagine, but I don't know.
[00:06:40]  And I just feel very bad about her.
[00:06:43]  Well, she warned Miley Cyrus.
[00:06:47]  She said, do not let people exploit you sexually.
[00:06:50]  Do not let somebody take your image and your version of who you are.
[00:06:57]  Don't let them do this.
[00:06:59]  You are in charge of this.
[00:07:01]  And I thought that was a very, very important thing.
[00:07:02]  She was very, very sad.
[00:07:05]  It was absolutely...
[00:07:06]  She was sad.
[00:07:09]  And granted, the Pope...
[00:07:12]  The symbology.
[00:07:17]  At the time, nobody understood it.
[00:07:21]  But now...
[00:07:22]  Oh yeah.
[00:07:26]  But remember, John Paul II was probably more responsible for covering up more than anybody.
[00:07:34]  Because Ratzenberger, Pope Benedict, was really the...
[00:07:38]  They called him the...
[00:07:42]  The Pope's pitbull in terms of going after them.
[00:07:46]  So, in any event, I wanted just to take this time just to give a different perspective.
[00:07:50]  She's very, very sad.
[00:07:52]  And what happens is, it's funny, when you are discarded in the world of entertainment, when you serve them their purpose no longer, you're just discarded.
[00:08:01]  You're nothing.
[00:08:02]  And they mock you, they laugh at you, but when you're a hit, they love you.
[00:08:07]  And by the way, I, we were talking about this, we have very bad feelings about Britney Spears coming up next and Madonna.
[00:08:18]  Without going into too much detail as to the latter of the two.
[00:08:23]  Well, I think this should be, our takeaway should be that people really need to understand about mental health.
[00:08:29]  It is not to be, you know, not discussed.
[00:08:33]  We have a tremendous, well-documented youth mental health crisis in the United States right now in 2023.
[00:08:39]  It's not being dealt with properly.
[00:08:41]  I don't see media talking about it too much.
[00:08:44]  I don't see individuals.
[00:08:46]  People believe, let's not talk about it.
[00:08:49]  It's shameful.
[00:08:51]  It's this.
[00:08:52]  But in the meantime, we have more kids than ever.
[00:08:54]  We have more young people 30 and under turning to drugs, turning to suicide, turning to...
[00:09:00]  Meeting predators online because they're feeling so vulnerable, looking for love.
[00:09:04]  So I think the whole mental health aspect has to really, really be brought out into the front.
[00:09:09]  And let's get on top of this.
[00:09:11]  Let's talk about it.
[00:09:12]  And let's heal.
[00:09:14]  I mean, this is just a very sad story.
[00:09:16]  But if it gives us a chance to talk about these things, that's something.
[00:09:22]  That was good.
[00:09:23]  That's what I wanted to do.
[00:09:24]  Thank you for that.
[00:09:25]  That was excellent.
[00:09:26]  We will chat again.
[00:09:27]  And by the way, I put down here, Follow Lynn's Warriors on Twitter.
[00:09:31]  I cannot say X. I can't.
[00:09:35]  I don't say X either.
[00:09:36]  It's ridiculous, and I don't say X. It is Twitter.
[00:09:39]  Follow you accordingly.
[00:09:40]  Thank you, my darling.