Sinead O’Connor accuses Prince of trying to beat her up when he was on ‘dark’ drugs

SINEAD O'Connor has accused Prince of trying to beat her up in a drug-fuelled attack at his Los Angeles home.

The Irish singer claimed he chased her with a pillow "filled with something hard" to whack her with during a bizarre late-night bust-up.

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Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, Sinead said the pair clashed after her worldwide success with his song Nothing Compares 2U.

When quizzed about their relationship on the show, she said: "We did meet once but we didn't get on very well, we tried to beat each other up.

"Well, it was more he tried to beat me up and I was defending myself.

"It's not a joke, it's not a joke at all, it was a very frightening experience actually."

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Sinead was on the ITV morning show with hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid to perform Nothing Compares 2 U.

Recalling the terrifying encounter in LA, she added: "He summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone, not knowing where I was.

"He summoned me there because he was uncomfortable with the fact I wasn't a protege of his, I had just recorded the song, and he was wanting me to be a protege of his.

"He ordered that I don't swear anymore in my interviews but Irish people swear all the time, of course I told him where he could go."

Sinead claims that's when their confrontation turned physical.

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"He went for me," she said.

"Then he went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow and I ran out of his house.

"I was hiding behind a tree... he's going this way in his car, we meet on the highway in Malibu at 5 o'clock in the morning.

"We were running around his car, I'm spitting at him and he's trying to punch me, he's got this pillow he's trying to hit me with.

"Then I had to go and ring someone's doorbell which is what my father always told me to do if I got in a situation like that."

She then claimed: "He was into some pretty dark drugs... I never saw or heard from him again after that."

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She later added: "I'm not the only one he went at. One of the girls in his band was in hospital with broken ribs at the time."

Sinead recorded Prince's song Nothing Compares 2 U in 1990 and it went on to be a number one hit around the world.

Prince was 57 when he died after being found alone and unresponsive in an elevator at his Paisley Park home on April 21, 2016.

Autopsy results revealed he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl– a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin.

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