Is this news? We’re not sure. But we figured — hey, she’s a priest — this is kinda interesting. So here goes:
Sinéad O’Connor is gay.
In an interview in an upcoming edition of the lesbian-oriented magazine Curve (www.curvemag.com), the 33-year-old singer, best known to audiences as That Bald Chick, says so herself.
“I’m a lesbian,” O’Connor says in Curve. “I haven’t been very open about that, and throughout most of my life I’ve gone out with blokes because I haven’t necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian. But I actually am a lesbian.”
You’ll be reading that quote over and over again today because it’s one of three that Curve released to hype its exclusive. The interview, in its entirety, will be published in the mag’s July-August issue, due out June 27 — about the same time O’Connor’s new album, “Faith and Courage,” is due out.
O’Connor, who became an ordained priest in her native Ireland in 1999, has a 12-year-old son by an ex-husband and a 3-year-old daughter by an ex-boyfriend.
Career highlights include: recording the No. 1 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U”; ripping up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”; and being threatened with an ass-kicking by Frank Sinatra after she objected to the National Anthem being played before her performances.
