Sinead O’Connor Apologizes to Arsenio Hall For Accusing Him of Giving Prince Drugs

In response, Hall has dismissed his $5 million libel lawsuit against her

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Sinead O’Connor has apologized to Arsenio Hall for accusing him of supplying drugs to Prince and insinuating he had something to do with the singer’s death last year.

“I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio Hall 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,” she said in a statement obtained by TheWrap. “I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally,” she continued.

In a Facebook post in May of last year, O’Connor claimed that Hall provided Prince, who died April 21 at age 57, with drugs.

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