Bob Geldof told fans that some of Sinead O'Connor's final texts before her passing were 'laden with desperation and despair'
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00:00 Sinead O'Connor's longtime friend and fellow artist Bob Geldof remembered her while performing
00:04 over the weekend in Ireland.
00:06 The singer took a moment to recall his childhood neighbor, telling the crowd at the Cave-In
00:10 Calling Festival, "Many, many times Sinead was full of terrible loneliness and a terrible
00:15 despair.
00:16 She was a very good friend of mine."
00:18 He added that they were talking right up to a couple of weeks ago, describing some of
00:22 her texts as "laden with desperation and despair" and others "ecstatically happy."
00:28 Paul Sinead passed away last Wednesday at the age of 56 years old.
00:32 The "Nothing Compares to You" singer opened up about her mental health struggles throughout
00:36 the years and lost her son Shane to suicide in 2022.
00:40 Bob went on to describe his late friend as a great artist and a radical and an activist
00:44 at the same time, before going on to perform the song "Mary of the Fourth Form" in her