Sinead O’Connor Ends Her Fourth Marriage After Just 16 Days

Just 17 days after sending out her tasteful wedding announcement, Sinead O’Connor has called it quits with her husband of 16 days, Barry Herridge. What facts about Sinead O’Connor’s vagina did this announcement include?

Not a lot, as it turns out. In a long and heartfelt message posted to her website today, she blamed various unnamed people close to her husband for making him feel shitty about his Internet courtship of, and subsequent marriage to, her:

From the moment myself and my husband got together not long ago, there was intense pressure placed upon him by certain people in his life, not to be involved with me. These were people who had never met me but had formed opinions of me based on what they read about ‘Sinead ‘O’Connor’ in the media etc.

She went on to say that rather than continue in this vein, she decided to set him free from their blessed union so as not to see him suffer:

Entitled as they are to their opinions about me many perhaps well deserved, there was no righteousness on anyone’s part to put my husband through what he was put through as a result of his desire to be with me and to marry me and as a result of his actually marrying me.

Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed by the behaviour of certain people in my husband’s life. And also by a bit of a wild ride I took us on looking for a bit of a smoke of weed for me wedding night as I don’t drink. My husband was enormously wounded and very badly effected by that experience and also by the attitude of those close to him toward our marriage.

It became apparent to me that if he were to stay with me he would be losing too much to bear. And that being with me was not going to serve him positively , career wise or any other wise. I saw his life leave him because of how people close to him reacted. And I can’t take anyone’s life. And a woman wants to be a joy to her husband. So.. U love someone? Set them free.

She then affirmed her love for the guy, and clarified that they had only lived together as husband and wife for seven of the sixteen days:

He is a wonderful man. I love him very much. I’m sorry I’m not a more regular woman. I truly believe though it is painful to admit, we made a mistake rushing into getting married, for altruistic reasons, and weren’t aware or prepared for the consequences on my husband’s life and the lives of those close to him. He has been terribly unhappy and I have therefore ended the marriage. I think he is too nice to do so. And too nice to trap.’
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The marriage was 16 days. We lived together for 7 days only. Until Xmas eve. And we haven’t been awful to each other.

Considering how much she hates being lonely, one might think Sinead O’Connor would fight harder to keep the guy she netted with her siren song of a mating call. To hear her tell it, the problem was not how they felt about each other, but how his friends felt about it. Then again, considering the guy works as a counselor for people with addiction problems, it might not be the best move for him to publicly do things like going on a “wild ride” in search of marijuana for his bipolar wife. In any case, I send my condolences, and I hope Sinead finds someone else to tackle her “difficult brown” soon.

(Via The Daily Mail)