Sinead O’Connor wrote about Prince in her 2021 book “Rememberings.” According to the “Thank You For Hearing Me” singer, Prince was never happy that she repurposed “Nothing Compares 2 U” into her own hit song. “Firstly, Prince didn’t like people covering his songs,” O’Connor wrote in her book (via Metro). “Secondly, he had all these female proteges and he was annoyed that I wasn’t one of them,” she added. The Irish-born singer also alleged that the “When Doves Cry” artist had a history of being abusive. “On top of all this he was a woman-beating c***. I’m certainly not the only woman he laid a hand on.”
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As O’Connor wrote in her book, the meeting between the two took place at Prince’s mansion, where he displayed controlling characteristics which included trying to force her to eat soup. At one point in the evening, Prince suggested a pillow fight, but slipped “something hard … into his pillowcase” (via the New York Times). That led to O’Connor eventually fleeing the mansion, but Prince chased after her in his car and they had a confrontation on the highway. “[Prince] starts chasing me round the car, telling me he’s gonna kick the s*** out of me,” she wrote (via the New York Post). Apparently, Prince partly acted out because he had legal issues with O’Conner’s manager Steve Fargnoli. O’Connor would later have her own legal issues with the singer.
