Sinead O'Connor 'receiving care' after suicidal video

Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Sinead O'Connor is "safe" and "receiving the best of care" days after she posted a video saying she is suicidal, a representative posted on Facebook.

The Irish musician uploaded a Facebook video Thursday saying she was living at a New Jersey Travelodge. The clip shows her crying as she describes what it's like to live with mental illness.

The video prompted concern from her fans and prompted a representative to post to O'Connor's Facebook page that she's OK.

"Hi everybody, I am posting at Sinead's request, to let everyone who loves her know she is safe, and she is not suicidal," the post Monday night said. "She is surrounded by love and receiving the best of care. She asked for this to be posted knowing you are concerned for her. I won't respond to any questions, so please understand. I hope this comforts those of you were concerned."

In her original video, O'Connor said she was alone and dealing with the same mental health issues as millions of others do.

"I'm now living in a Travelodge hotel in the arse end of New Jersey. I'm all by myself and there's absolutely nobody in my life except my doctor, my psychiatrist, the sweetest man on Earth who says I'm his hero," she says in the video. "That's about the only thing keeping me alive at the moment. The fact that I'm his bloody hero. And that's kind of pathetic."

"I'm fighting like all the millions I know to stay alive everyday which I'm doing because I love the people that are doing this to me," O'Connor says. "I'm not staying alive for me. If it was me I'd be gone straight away back to my mom because I walked this Earth alone for two years as punishment for being mentally [expletive] ill and being angry that nobody would [expletive] take care of me, specifically for being suicidal."

O'Connor also asks viewers to help those suffering from mental illness. "If you have a family member that suffers from mental illness, care for them, tenderness, love, care for them. Visit them in the hospital, don't dump them in the hospital and bugger off."

In May 2016, O'Connor was reported missing before being found a day later inside a Chicago area hotel. She was later taken to a hospital.