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Sinead O’Connor has claimed that she faced a violent confrontation with Prince after securing her biggest hit with a cover of his song ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.
In a new interview with The New York Times, the Irish singer said the incident occurred when Prince invited her to his Hollywood mansion after the 1991 cover became a huge hit.
According to O’Connor, Prince “chastised her for swearing in interviews, harangued his butler to serve her soup though she repeatedly refused it, and sweetly suggested a pillow fight only to thump her with something hard he’d slipped into his pillowcase.”
Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia - who was married to the singer from 1996-2000 - spoke out in the star’s defence, telling TMZ that he was never violent towards her or witnessed him being violent towards anyone. Cat echoes Mayte’s sentiments in this episode.
She arrived in Hollywood as Tara Leigh Patrick. Thanks to Prince, she emerged a star known as Carmen Electra.
“That first time I met Prince, he was very quiet,” she says. “I was very shy, so there was this awkward moment of us just kind of standing in front of each other. He broke the ice by asking me if I wanted to play pool.” Prince went to the piano and started playing ‘Do-Re-Mi’ from The Sound of Music. “I had a feeling he thought I didn’t know the song, but it just so happened I had played Marta and Brigitta at two different dinner theatre productions of The Sound of Music in Cincinnati,” she says. Then Electra danced from him -the art in which she was most trained. Prince seemed impressed by her dancing, but days passed without her hearing back regarding the part in the band.
Electra assumed she’d been rejected. “I wound up getting my deal with Capitol Records, so I stayed in L.A. to record my demos,” she says. “During that time I got a call from Prince, who said he’d heard I was recording and asked to hear my songs.” After playing the songs for him, Prince told her he could do better. A few days later, she met him in a studio in L.A. “He wrote me a song called, ‘Carmen on Top.’” Should she like the song, she could record it. “I loved it, but I reminded him that my name was Tara. He told me, ‘You look like a Carmen, so, to me, you’re Carmen.’” Though the song was never released, the new name stuck. She was now officially Carmen Electra.
Not long after, Electra accepted Prince’s invitation to move to Minneapolis and signed a record deal with Paisley Park Records. Prince produced and wrote her first project, directed her videos, and styled her looks. Living at Paisley Park was utterly surreal, Electra wistfully recalls. “It looked like you were in heaven and a magical unicorn was going to come running around the corner,” she laughs. “Everything in Paisley Park was pastel and light and fluffy and dreamy. You just felt like you were in another world-a world that Prince created.”
6 сен 2024
