Sinead O’Connor has publicly apologised to Arsenio Hall, after claiming the talk show host gave Prince drugs just before his death last April.
About a week after the pop icon’s death, Sinead wrote on Facebook saying Prince was a “long time hard drug user” who “got his drugs over the decades” from Arsenio.
Arsenio filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against the Nothing Compares 2 u singer after she made the claims and described her as a “desperate, attention-seeker … now known perhaps as much for her bizarre, unhinged internet rants as for her music.”
Nearly a year after making the claims, Sinead has finally retracted her defamatory comments.
“I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio to the extent that anyone thought I was accusing him of acting as Prince’s drug dealer and supplying him with illegal hard drugs, or insinuating that Arsenio had something to do with Prince’s death,” she told TMZ. “I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally.”
Arsenio’s publicist has since confirmed to ABC news that the lawsuit will be dropped.
