Sinéad O’Connor is postponing her tour so she can enter a year-long program for “trauma and addiction.”
The Irish songbird made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter under her Islamic moniker Shuhada Sadaqat, the name she adopted upon converting to Islam.
The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer wrote that she will be postponing 2021 shows so “that I may go into a one year trauma and addiction treatment program because I have had a very traumatic six years and this year was the end of it but now recovery starts.”
O’Connor, 53, says that this year she lost someone “beloved,” which cause her to “become briefly addicted to a drug other than weed.”
The Grammy winner added that she has been addicted to weed for 34 years and “grew up with a lot of trauma and abuse. I then went straight into the music business. And never learned really how to make a normal life.”
Last month O’Connor issued a heartbreaking plea on Twitter claiming that she was starving and agoraphobia was preventing her from buying food at a store.
The singer has long spoken out about her battles with mental health. In 2017, she revealed on “Dr. Phil” that she tried to kill herself eight times in one year and that her mother had beat her daily.
That year the “Troy” warbler shared a disturbing Facebook post in which she said, through tears, that she was reduced to living in a New Jersey motel and, “for two years, my entire life has revolved around just not dying, and that’s not just living.”
In September, she tweeted that she was training to become a medical professional, but would still be singing.