Loose Women star Coleen Nolan questioned the support Sinead O’Connor received from friends when she was alive, as the programme paid tribute to the singer.
Nolan told the panel she didn’t realise what a “tragic life” O’Connor had until the news of her sad death was announced yesterday (26 July).
Nolan then said what “saddens her” is that people rush to pay tribute to a person when they die, but added “where were all this people when they saw the trauma she was going through?”
Nolan told the panel she didn’t realise what a “tragic life” O’Connor had until the news of her sad death was announced yesterday (26 July).
Nolan then said what “saddens her” is that people rush to pay tribute to a person when they die, but added “where were all this people when they saw the trauma she was going through?”
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00:00 The thing that saddens me the most when I see this is it was quite obvious through the years to me that Sinead was
00:07 suffering with mental health. She was open about that I think at the time.
00:12 Whenever this happens, when somebody dies that's been in the public eye,
00:17 all these tributes pour out. All these obituaries and tributes and how she was amazing and how she was wonderful.
00:24 Which is kind of what we're doing now, except I never knew her personally.
00:30 But I always think
00:32 where were all these people when they saw the trauma she must have been going through?
00:37 You know, I don't, I'm obviously not her family, but you know
00:40 friends that have come out and said we were really close friends and all of that.
00:44 And I think, but I remember reading terrible things about her like, oh she's lost her way, or look how much weight she's put on.
00:51 Oh, she's not, you know, why is she, you know, doing this? Why is she doing that?
00:55 Why is she speaking nonsense? Everyone doing that and then it takes someone to die for people to come out and be nice.
01:00 You're like, it really upsets me more than anything. We should have always been nice. I mean, I do think, yeah.
01:06 (audience applauding)