Sinead O'Connor shopped Shane 'to save his life'
[Feb 4 2000 5:26PM]


Sinead O'Connor has responded to Q magazine's news story that 
she reported Shane MacGowan to the police for alleged possession 
of Class A drugs by saying that she did it try and save his life. 

In an e-mail to Q magazine she painted a startling picture of the 
former Pogues frontman's decline into an alohol and drug-fuelled 
hell and said: "It wasn't about 'grassing' Shane MacGowan - I went 
to the police out of concern for his life."

O'Connor - who last year was ordained as a Latin Tridentine Catholic 
priest - is a longtime friend of MacGowan and his girlfriend Victoria 
Clarke. She said that the sequence of events began when MacGowan asked 
to borrow money even though she understood he had just been paid 
£23,000 in royalties and advances.

"I deduced that what he really was asking for was not cash, but help. 
Still like an idiot I gave him £600. Then I went to see him that 
morning (November 11) and found he'd spent it on heroin."

O'Connor said that she told him that if that's what he did with the 
money then she would go to the police - "And I'll shop him a million 
times if I have to!" 

For the full, unexpurgated report on this extraordinary saga - and the 
alarming decline of Shane MacGowan - check out the March issue of Q 
magazine, on sale now..

Taken from http://www.qonline.co.uk