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What does she think would have happened if Prince had caught her? What was the scariest moment? His irises dissolved and his eyes just went white. There still might be, she says. I think he was a walking devil. And he never attempted to meet me. I was just so glad to be out of it. As well as the traumatic stuff, Rememberings is hilarious at times. Every minute she is falling in love with someone new — invariably a priest or yet another man called John. After a few unsatisfactory responses, Mr Right offered his services, and this resulted in her brief fourth marriage.

I was like every other girl in a band. We all fucked our way around America. She stops, and says she has a confession. Then I went on a load of dating sites. I never did any one-night stands before, and then I did the entire slutty college years in six months.

But it was time for it to stop. There are also honourable — or dishonourable — mentions of celebrity boyfriends. Did that upset her? Anyway, this is all the past, she insists; the hysterectomy has done for her libido. The thought of having to shave your legs, pluck your eyebrows, hold in your stomach, stick out your arse, always stress, stress.

He told me to stop wanking. For her, music has always been a form of therapy. Having said that, she did earn a fortune from music. I probably should have made more. I gave away half of it. So as soon as I got the money, I doled it out in various ways to different charities and people.

She looks embarrassed. Has that defined her career? There was no doubt about who this bitch is. There was no more mistaking this woman for a pop star. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up their career, not mine. It meant I had to make my living playing live, and I am born for live performance. Despite everything that has happened to her — the abuse, the breakdowns, the betrayals and fallouts — she has never lost her faith. Religions are simply platforms for faith, she says, and she decided Catholicism was a lousy platform, so she chose Islam.

Why did she become a Muslim? In the same way that Jesus was a militantly anti-religious figure, Allah is saying that people are not to worship anything but God. The worst thing that happened to God is religion. But over the following days she calls and texts with corrections and additional information. There are reminders of how much she adores her father, her children and two of her ex-husbands.

Last time we met it was a period of relative stability in her life. And she got cancelled for it. The scandal led to crowds gathering outside the New York City offices of her record company and steamrolling hundreds of copies of her album.

Complaints flooded into the SNL studios. Frank Sinatra called her "one stupid broad" and the Diocese of of Brooklyn demanded an apology. It would be years before we realised how right she was. I wonder if she would be treated any differently today, knowing what we know about mental health? Every member of O'Connor's band is from Northern Ireland.

They're mischievous, you know? And I appreciate the elements of it which are English, if I'm honest with you. It's also where she's working on her forthcoming album with DJ and producer David Holmes. But the real reason we're speaking is because her memoir Rememberings is about to be released. Fans are excited. Others are probably quaking in their boots.

Amusingly, she writes that some people have been left out "because I know they prefer privacy", but others have been omitted because she wants them to be annoyed "when they look for their names in the book and don't find them". Her true intention, however, is to "to put all the pieces of the jigsaw that was me out on the floor and see what I could put together", she says.

The book is in three parts and told in two "very distinctly different voices" - one leading up to the tearing of the Pope's picture and one after. Both are equally as important," she tells the reader. There are a number of confessions in the opening pages too, and O'Connor is the first to admit that much of the last 30 years has been a bit of a blur. In the foreword, she explains: "I was actually present before my first album came out. And then I went somewhere else inside myself.

And I began to smoke weed. I never finally stopped until mid Despite this, the book offers an intimate insight into the singer's life and works - there's a chapter for every album.

It chronicles everything from the abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother to discovering God and music. My mother was saying all this scary stuff, and I was curled up so she could kick me on the bottom.

Suddenly, there Jesus was in my mind, on a little stony hill, on His cross. It is a soul-bearing, brutally honest account of an extraordinary life. When she speaks to me, she's in good spirits. Bette Midler tweeted her this morning. She's a bit of an idol so I nearly died when I saw that thing this morning.

I swear I was ready to get naked and run up and down the village squealing. O'Connor is wickedly funny, a lesser-known feature of her personality that comes across in her writing too. We talk about touring "It's a young person's game" , tattoos "I have no room for any more, unless I tattoo my head or something" , driving music "Good driving music is Van Morrison However, with fame came controversy.

Among other incidents, O'Connor tore up a picture of the pope during an appearance on Saturday Night Live in and has more recently been known for using social media to express her personal struggles. Her parents divorced early on and her mother was frequently abusive, and she was sent to reform school after being caught shoplifting. Her music career began when she was "discovered" by the drummer of the popular Irish band In Tua Nua and co-wrote their hit song "Take My Hand. While performing with a Dublin band called Ton Ton Macoute, O'Connor caught the attention of the two owner-managers of a small London record label called Ensign Records.

Ensign released her debut album, The Lion and the Cobra , late in Critics lauded O'Connor's powerful and expressive voice and noted the complexity of her songs, even while acknowledging their decidedly uncommercial nature.

Though it had no major hit singles, the album eventually sold over , copies and went platinum. Soon, however, O'Connor became famous for her controversial public outbursts, beginning in when she announced her support for the radical Irish Republican Army IRA ; she retracted the statement one year later.

She again made headlines in when she refused to appear on stage in New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner" were played before the concert. In , O'Connor boycotted the Grammy ceremony and refused her award for Best Alternative Album, maintaining that her absence was a protest against the extreme commercialism of the Grammy Awards. I consider them to be responsible for the destruction of entire races of people and the subsequent existence of domestic and child abuse in every country they went into," the singer stated in a interview with Time magazine.

Aside from the release of her single, Gospel Oak , O'Connor's recording career faltered in the late s, eclipsed by the turmoil in the singer's private life.

In , an extended custody battle began between O'Connor and her ex-lover, Irish journalist John Waters, over their infant daughter, Roisin. Plagued by Waters' bitter accusations that she was an unfit mother, O'Connor attempted suicide in March A few days later, however, she snatched the girl from Waters' home and flew with her back to London.

Less than a month later, O'Connor made headlines in an altogether different way. In April , she was ordained as the first-ever priestess of the Latin Tridentine Church, a dissident Catholic group led by a self-styled Roman Catholic bishop from Ireland named Michael Cox. In , O'Connor signed with Atlantic Records. Her personal life made headlines the following year.