Says she was ‘triggered.’
Irish musician Sinead O’Connor has backtracked and apologized for her comments last year in which she called white people and “non-Muslims” “disgusting.”
In November of 2018, O’Connor, who converted to Islam in 2018, wrote on Twitter that she did not want to “spend time with white people again,” calling them “disgusting.”
“I’m terribly sorry. What I’m about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that’s what non-muslims are called),” the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer said. “Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting.”
After a Friday appearance on Ireland’s Late Late Show, where she discussed the Islamic faith and performed her most popular single, O’Connor issued an apology on Twitter, saying she was “angry and unwell” and “triggered as a result of Islamophobia” at the time she made the statement.