Sinéad O'Connor claims Prince tried to beat her up

Sinéad O’Connor has claimed that the late singer and musician Prince once tried to beat her up in a “frightening experience” at his home in Los Angeles.

The Irish singer, 52, made the shocking allegations about the artist – who wrote her hit single ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ – on Good Morning Britain.

Telling presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid that she and Prince did not get on, she said they once tried to beat each other up.

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“Well, it was more that he was trying to beat me up and I was defending myself,” she then clarified.

"It was a very frightening experience.

“It was in Los Angeles and he summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone not knowing where I was.

“He summoned me there because he was uncomfortable with the fact that I wasn’t a protege of his – I had just recorded the song – and he was wanting me to be a protege of his.”

O’Connor continued: “He asked, well he didn’t ask but he ordered that I don’t swear any more in my interviews and, like, Irish people swear all the time.

“Of course, I told him where he could go.

“And then he went for me.

“Then he went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow.”

The singer said she fled Prince’s house and hid behind a tree and that he then got into his car.

"We meet on the highway in Malibu at five in the morning – we are running around this car. I’m spitting at him, he’s trying to punch me,” she said.

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The star said the situation ended when she rang on somebody’s doorbell, “which my father always told me to do if I got in a situation like that”.

O’Connor claimed Prince was “into some pretty dark drugs” at the time.

The singer died in 2016 at the age of 57, after an accidental fentanyl overdose.