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Sinead O’Connor Pulls A Kardashian: Dumps Hubby After 16 Days Of Marriage
AFTER SEVEN HOURS AND 16 DAYS, SINEAD O’CONNOR’S TAKEN HER LOVE AWAY. The tempetuous Irish songtress has tossed aside her fourth husband Barry Herridge after marrying in a pink Cadillac in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel on Dec. 8. She says she’s doing it for love.
“I had for reasons u will all understand, wished to keep this private but have been told today it is to be leaked in the next few days despite my best efforts,” O’Connor wrote on her blog yesterday. “So I must now leak it myself so as the record is straight.”
“From the moment myself and my husband got together not long ago, there was intense pressure placed upon him by certain people in his life, not to be involved with me,” Sinead writes. “These were people who had never met me but had formed opinions of me based on what they read about ‘Sinead ‘O’Connor’ in the media etc. Entitled as they are to their opinions about me many perhaps well deserved, there was no righteousness on anyone’s part to put my husband through what he was put through as a result of his desire to be with me and to marry me and as a result of his actually marrying me.”
“Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed by the behaviour of certain people in my husband’s life. And also by a bit of a wild ride i took us on looking for a bit of a smoke of weed for me wedding night as I don’t drink. My husband was enormously wounded and very badly effected by that experience and also by the attitude of those close to him toward our marriage. It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me he would be losing too much to bear. And that being with me was not going to serve him positively , career wise or any other wise. I saw his life leave him because of how people close to him reacted. And I can’t take anyone’s life. And a woman wants to be a joy to her husband. So.. U love someone? Set them free.”
“He is a wonderful man. I love him very much. I’m sorry I’m not a more regular woman. I truly believe though it is painful to admit, we made a mistake rushing into getting married, for altruistic reasons, and weren’t aware or prepared for the consequences on my husband’s life and the lives of those close to him. He has been terribly unhappy and I have therefore ended the marriage. I think he is too nice to do so. And too nice to trap.”
The impassioned performer goes on (and on) to explain that her husband’s career as a counselor to children was affected by his association with her. “His work is his life,” she explained. “Publicity over all this could jeopardise his job. Please, don’t do that to him. or I will have that on my conscience as well.”
Meanwhile, she intends to “get on with being fully me. With never an apology for ANY part if being FULLY ME. No matter what. I am a 21st century full woman and proud of living it. I am in a very good and happy and strong place in life so I am doing fine. “
Go on and get your freak on, girl.
