Tp think Sinead O'Connor should learn some manners?

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Just saw her on the BBC. How rude was she to that interviewer? She needs a slap...

I like her as an artist. Have ever so slightly gone off her...

It is totally scandalous.

Here is what O'Connor said to the Irish Sun yesterday. No-one can read this and still wonder about why she might be angry, IMO:

"She told the Irish Sun: ?We were girls in there, not women, just children really. And the girls in there cried every day.
?It was a prison. We didn?t see our families, we were locked in, cut off from life, deprived of a normal childhood.
?We were told we were there because we were bad people. Some of the girls had been raped at home and not believed.
?One girl was in because she had a bad hip and her family didn?t know what to do with her.
?It was a great grief to us.?
And she explained that her 18 months in High Park, Drumcondra, Dublin, left her so angry at the injustice that it was part of the reason she caused worldwide controversy by tearing up a picture of the Pope on live television.
She said: ?It wasn?t the only reason, but it was one of them.?
Last night, she lashed out at the Church?s ?flaccid? apology and said she was ?disgusted? by it.
Mother-of-four Sinead said: ?They said something like, ?We?re sorry for the hurt?.
?The word hurt doesn?t cover it. I am disgusted that the State won?t apologise. I?m disgusted at the tone of the Church?s flaccid apology. The Church is getting away with it again.?
Troubled Sinead ? who has previously told how she suffered abuse as a child ? began stealing as a teenager and was sent to the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Institute".

Good point re Stephen Fry, Sunny .

I also have mental health problems. I am also angry. And have had my anger questioned a million times by dickheads.

"And would an interviewer try the type of bollocks with a man who'd been mentally ill? The sainted Stephen Fry, for example?"

This!

I just watched it. The interviewer was completely at fault, he obviously made her feel completely uncomfortable and insulted her work. She looks like a fish out of water.

His early questions re how she was and who she was trying to convince was so random that it made me think that other things had occurred off air prior to the interview.

She's to be commended for speaking out when it would be so much EASIER to just smile and wave and nod. Jeremy clarkson could do with a bit of hardship. knobber.

Sunnywithshowers, very good points.

The thing that I find most disturbing about all of this is the Op, the people who responded immediately, the number of people who seem to irrationally hate SOC and the number who are unaware of her story.

Absolutely agree that we seem to be in a horrendous world where we only want to see conformity in our celebrities. Either that, or celebrities who are only in the public eye because they have relentless pr machine going on like Natalie Cassidy.

I'm wondering if the OP might be the lady who posted the interview on Youtube. Damned if know why she was recording the Andrew MArr show. here's nowt so queer as folk who post on YouTube

Perhaps if Ms O'Connor had simpered and flirted with the interviewer we would all be feeling much more comfortable about her

God Forbid that a woman, and < shock horror > not one conforming to convention about how middle aged women should act and look, would be rude to a male

I think the OP is Clarkson.

mechanical blogging why is it ok in your mind for Humphries to savage someone, but it's not ok for O'Connor to savage the interviewer?

That's not what I said.

Look at the order of events- IMO she was asked a simple genuine question "How are you?".
SHE behaved like a prick. She wasn't savaged- but she DID savage EM.

IMO again, if she is - for whatever reason- in such a prickly emotional state, she ought to keep off TV and out of the public arena. Diva.

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Why?

She wasn't offensive. She is a singer and came to sing. she doesn't have to be patronised and she wasn't a diva.

Do you really think that was her savaging? She was a bit grumpy, she hardly Paxmanned him.

He didn't ask "how are you?" He asked "are you trying to convince me or yourself?" which is a ludicrously loaded and patronising question.

She answered that she was doing great then he tore into her and belittled her. He was the prick....

I'd she was 20, 'pretty', with long 'nice' hair she'd be saluted and called fiesty. But she's not.
An out of touch man asked her a patronising question and she responded in kind.

She also said" let's not" , which he ignored.

if she is - for whatever reason- in such a prickly emotional state, she ought to keep off TV and out of the public arena

Absolute stinking crap.

Yeah let's keep everyone off the telly box unless they are 100% super duper happy fine.

^^ What Sunny says.

The best thing about this thread is that it has prompted me to listen to Sinead O'Connor tracks on Youtube all evening, which I've really enjoyed... She really does have the most beautiful voice. :)

Stay off the Telly if you are emotional ?

Are you on crack? Er There would be no actors or musicians on T.V

True

She sings like she does because she is full of emotion. Pesky pesky emotion.

pesky female emotion

how fucking dare she ???

She has bipolar disorder and spent several years in a magdalene institution as a teen and suffered beatings by her mother. She later went to a Quaker school which must have been the polar opposite of the institution. She has been very outspoken about the Irish Catholic church, ahead of her time.

Not a diva or rude. And just because she has issues doesn't mean she has nothing pertinent to say.

I agree with Claig about the interview. She resisted the agenda he clearly launched into (a nude nudge wink wink treatment of her mental illness) and as AnyFucker said, not the simpering kind.

Eddie Mare can be a right blunt bastard IMO, It's great for politicians and the like, it's not ok for a singer.

Mair