CHICAGO (Reuters) – Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has been found safe and is no longer considered a missing person, Chicago-area police said on Monday afternoon.
The singer was being sought after she was reported missing on Sunday when she did not return from a bicycle ride to where she was staying in the suburb of Wilmette.
Police in Wilmette said they were “seeking to check the well-being” of the musician, who topped the charts around the world 26 years ago with a cover of Prince’s song “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
A caller who reported the 49-year-old missing expressed concern for her well-being. Police said they did not know O’Connor’s connection to Wilmette.
Representatives for O’Connor could not immediately be reached for comment.
The singer, who inflamed Catholic sensibilities in 1992 by ripping up a picture of the pope on the TV show “Saturday Night Live,” received medical treatment last November, after a message that she had taken a drug overdose was posted on her Facebook page.
Earlier this month, comedian Arsenio Hall filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against O’Connor, who accused him of supplying drugs to musician Prince, whose death on April 21 has prompted speculation about an overdose.
O’Connor posted a note on her Facebook page claiming Hall supplied drugs to Prince for years.
(Additional reporting by Justin Madden in Chicago; Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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