SINEAD O’CONNOR has revealed her family’s heartache in a candid Facebook post about her seriously ill son.
The 48-year-old singer has scrapped all her gigs for the rest of the year while she care for her child, reports the Irish Mirror.
It comes a week after the Nothing Compares 2 U hitmaker said she was cancelling her gig at the Galway Arts Festival and the rest of her 2015 concerts due to exhaustion.
Mum-of-four Sinead said: “My child has been suffering with a life-threatening medical condition since early March 2015.
“It is the type of condition my child will definitely survive, if correct care is taken and is supervised by myself.
“Otherwise there is no guarantee. That is the plain truth.“Needless to say, this has been and remains a severe family crisis.
“Like any mother, I have been up all day and night every day and night since I found out my child is suffering.
“Studying and learning all I can so that I might help not only the suffering child, but those of my other children who are naturally affected by the situation.”
Sinead spoke about facing every parent’s nightmare when her son’s condition declined days before her performance at UFC champ Conor McGregor’s Las Vegas fight earlier this month.
She wrote: “Seven nights before I arrived in Las Vegas for the Conor McGregor fight, my child took a turn for worst, and I became frightened. “There are not many services or much support for children and families in this situation in Ireland.
“So you’re on you’re own when the s**t’s hitting the fan.”
Sinead also said she is scrapping her performances because of deteriorating gynecological condition that she needed three surgeries for in the space of nine months last year.
She said: “Since I am no longer physically or mentally or emotionally capable of focusing on anything but my child’s recovery, and on the massive changes in our lives which are now necessary for me to make in order to maintain the wellbeing of all my children.
“I have also been separately instructed by my own doctor, not to work. “I have been advised that the only solution to the menstrual situation is to have a hysterectomy, which would clearly be better done sooner rather than later if I’m to manage so much as making it up the road to Tesco, never mind keeping my children safe.” The outspoken star stressed that she is apprehensive about cancelling her tour as she relies on gigging to put food on the table.
She said: “I work not only because I love live performance, but so that I can keep what little is left of what I saved from the 90s safe, because I need to raise my children until the 8 and a half year old is at least eighteen.
“Like everyone in the music business, I’ve been ripped off left, right and centre. I consequently do not at all have the kind of money people think I might have.”
Sinead stressed that she is happy to take time out to care for her son, saying: “My lovely child is priceless.
“And so therefore am I, because he needs me more than anyone else does.”
