Sinead O’Connor Apologizes For Claiming Arsenio Hall Was Prince’s Drug Dealer

9:15 PM EST on February 22, 2017

BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA – MARCH 21: Sinead O’Connor performs on stage during day two of the East Coast Blues & Roots Festival on March 21, 2008 in Byron Bay, Australia. (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

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In the wake of Prince's death last year, Sinead O'Connor went on a long Facebook rant accusing Arsenio Hall of fueling the Purple One's drug habit. Shortly thereafter, Hall filed a $5 million defamation suit, and now O'Connor has retracted her claims and issued an apology. "I apologize for my Facebook posts about Arsenio to the extent that anyone thought I was accusing him of acting as Prince's drug dealer and supplying him with illegal hard drugs, or insinuating that Arsenio had something to do with Prince's death," she tells TMZ. "I sincerely apologize because those statements would be false, and I retract them unequivocally." Representatives for Hall say that he will file to dismiss his lawsuit.