“He Tried to Beat The Shit Out of Me,” Sinead O’Connor Claims Prince Used Hard Drugs And Beat Women

—blogged by @lovelikejhoney

“Purple Rain” singer and actor, Prince, died April 21, 2016, at the age of 57, however, after two years of investigation, the cause of death was announced yesterday by Carver County Attorney, Mark Metz—an accidental overdose of counterfeit Vicodin containing fentanyl. Neither of which the singer had a prescription for.

According to Irish singer, Sinead O’Connor, Prince regularly used and abused hard drugs much like the ones that ultimately took his life. Audio from her interview with police 11 days after Prince’s death has now leaked to the public, and aside from drug use, O’Connor also claims the legendary musician was often violent towards women.

“In the case of Prince, everyone is mistaken who believes he did not have a drug habit the entirety of his life. He used hard drugs commonly,” O’Connor told police in a May 2, 2016 interview, “I know this because I spent time with the man.”

“He did not release an album, famously, which was called the Black Album,” she continued. “The reason he didn’t, he told me himself, was that he had been taking so many dark drugs that he had a vision from God and God told him the album was evil and he was not to release it.”

O’Connor, whose 1990 hit song, “Nothing Compares 2 U,” was written by Prince, never saw him use drugs. “He would retire to another room to take whatever the drugs were and when he would come out of the room, he would be very violent, very aggressive, his eyeballs would disappear, literally, from his eyes, they vanished,” O’Connor added. “He had been very violent, and these women will be coming forward over time. He had been extremely violent to a number of women in his life, including myself. Several women were put in the hospital while poor Prince was under the effects of these medications.”

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O’Connor, 51, recalled a time when Prince allegedly tried to attack her. “He tried to beat the shit out of me,” she told police. “I had to escape out of his house in the middle of the night, I managed to escape out of his house, he had me locked in the house ready to beat the s—t out of me because he had gone upstairs and taken some kind of weird drug,” O’Connor claimed. “Prince was not a very nice man. I always joked that they didn’t call him Prince for nothing.”