When last we checked in with Sinéad O’Connor, the singer was announcing that she was gay. (The magazine quote we believe was: “I’m a lesbian.”) But as of this past weekend, the 33-year-old O’Connor was merely “slightly confused.” As are we.
But in a letter to the Irish newspaper the Independent, the performer tries to clarify:
“Of perhaps 30 people I’ve been with since 11 years of age, two have been women, the rest men,” O’Connor writes. “I am rarely attracted to women but loved making love with the women I loved.”
O’Connor, a mother of two, says she went with the lesbian tag in a couple of interviews because she didn’t want to make her two ex-girlfriends feel bad.
“I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian,” she writes. “It was not a publicity stunt. I was trying to make someone else feel better. And have subsequently caused pain for myself.”
For the record, O’Connor says she is “not in a box of any description.”
And, no, she didn’t elaborate on the 11-year-old part.
