Sinead O’Connor Reunites with Husband After Short Separation

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor says she has reunited with her fourth husband after a short-lived marriage and an even shorter split.

The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer said on her new Twitter account that, after a night of love making, she and Barry Herridge had decided to stay married, go to counseling and live together.

O’Connor announced a week ago that she and Herridge had split after just 16 days of marriage, blaming pressure and disapproval from her new husband’s family and friends.

“Guess who had a mad love making affair with her own husband last night?” O’Connor, 46, tweeted on Wednesday.

“We decided to be boyfriend and girlfriend again and stay married but we did rush so we gonna return to b friend g friend an be sickenly happy an go counsellin an move in like a yr regular people…but stay married,” she added, using Twitter shorthand.

O’Connor married Herridge, a therapist, in Las Vegas on December 8 but said last week she had split with him on December 24. She blamed her attempts to seek out marijuana on their wedding night as the event that strained their relationship.

Sinead O’Connor Ends 16-Day Marriage

After only 16 days, Sinead O’Connor’s 4th marriage is over.

O’Connor explains that her husband had been “terribly unhappy” and that their relationship had caused much anguish in his family and posed a threat to his work as a child therapist, and so she decided it would be best to cut her losses and set him “free.”

“I’m sorry I’m not a more regular woman,” she writes. “I truly believe, though it is painful to admit, we made a mistake rushing into getting married, for altruistic reasons, and weren’t aware or prepared for the consequences on my husband’s life and the lives of those close to him.”

She adds, bluntly, that she broke up with him because “I think he is too nice to do so. And too nice to trap.” They lived together for only seven days, she says. “We haven’t been awful to each other. So while I feel sad for my husband, and sad to be the cause of sorrow to yet another poor man, I’m also happy that I know we weren’t horrible to each other and he is better off free.”

O’Connor and Herridge tied the knot on Dec. 8, her 45th birthday, in a drive-thru ceremony in Las Vegas. After filling out the paperwork, the couple shared vows from the back of a light pink Cadillac at A Little White Wedding Chapel while O’Connor donned a matching pink wedding dress.

The two met during the singer’s online search for a “wham-bam” sexual partner that drew much media attention several months ago.

This was O’Connor’s fourth marriage. Her third, to Steve Cooney, ended in divorce earlier this year. The mother of four was also previously married to producer John Reynolds and journalist Nicholas Sommerlad.