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Bald Irish singer Sinead O'Conner is safe in Dublin. Fans of the 48-year-old singer were alarmed when she posted on her Facebook status that she overdosed because of problems with her family.

She wrote on Sunday, "There is no other way to get respect I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name. If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they'd never have known."

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Sinead accuses her family of "appalling cruelty." She is battling for custody of her two youngest children - 11-year-old Shane Lunny and 8-year-old Yeshua Bonadio - with her two former husbands. She also mentioned an older son, 28-year-old Jake Reynolds, as one of the sources of her pain, but she did not mentioned her 18-year-old daughter Roisin Waters.

In one post, she reminds Donal Lunny, the father of Shane, that the court order states they have joint custody over the boy, but Donal has apparently prevented her from seeing Shane. She accuses him and Jake of lying to the Gardai.

She also points to another former husband, Barry Herridge whom she married in 2011, but they separated after just 16 days. O'conner mentioned An Gardai Siochana and Angela Singleton, but she did not specify who these two were, although Singleton could possibly be Jake's girlfriend.

O'connor admitted on Friday to her followers that she desperately needs a job and a place to stay. She laments that her family is treating her so badly that she could "barely manage to stay alive."

Besides custody battles, she also has health issues, having undergo a hysterectomy in August which involved the removal of her womb and ovaries, reports CBS.