14 DAY TRIAL // Singer Sinead O'Connor is divorcing her fourth husband after just 16 days. She and Barry Herridge tied the knot in Las Vegas less than 2 months after they met, in a ceremony well documented by paparazzi. She is now saying they still love each other.
The star, who has already been married three times, announced her intention of getting a man on her Twitter page and official blog.
Shortly after, she told her fans and friends she'd already found someone and that she was sure it would last. So sure she was that she actually married him in Vegas two months later.
Also on her blog, Sinead is now explaining the reasons she decided the marriage wouldn't last: it's not that she and Barry don't love each other anymore, it's that people on his side of the family don't want him connected to her in any way.
She was well aware that they were rushing into marriage, but she believed the love they had for each other would make it work. It didn't.
“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 writes.
She also says she would have wanted to keep the divorce a private matter, but realized it would be impossible for her to do so because of how much media attention the Vegas ceremony got less than a month ago.
“Within 3 hours of the ceremony being over the marriage was kyboshed by the behaviour of certain people in my husband’s life. […] 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 says.
Sinead uses her blog not only to make a statement (her only) on the divorce, but also the plead with the media to leave Barry alone and not cause him more embarrassment than she already has.
“He is a wonderful man. I love him very much. I’m sorry I’m not a more regular woman. [...] Publicity over all this could jeopardize his job. Please, don’t do that to him. or I will have that on my conscience as well. he is a private person. I’m fair game. He or his family are not,” she writes.
Sinead O'Connor's full statement on her fourth divorce is here.