Sinéad O’Connor apologises to Arsenio Hall for suggesting he was involved in Prince’s death

Sinéad O’Connor has publicly apologised to US television presenter and comedian Arsenio Hall after insinuating he was involved in Prince‘s death.

Last May, the singer made headlines by claiming on Facebook that Hall was “where Prince got his drugs over the decades”, going on to describe Hall as “Prince’s and Eddie Murphy’s bitch” and accuse him of spiking her. “You best get tidying your man cave,” she wrote, after claiming she had reported him to the police.

Hall later filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit which denied the accusations and called O’Connor a “desperate attention-seeker,” claiming she is “well known for her media antics and for seeking attention through inflammatory Facebook posts”. O’Connor initially responded by saying: “He can suck my dick. That is if he isn’t too busy sucking someone else’s dick.

Now, O’Connor has apologised. She told TMZ: “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. I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally.

Hall’s representatives have indicated that he will now seek to dismiss the lawsuit.