Sinéad O'Connor makes shocking claim Prince physically assaulted her

Sinead O'Connor has accused Prince of trying to "beat her up" in a drug-fuelled attack.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the Irish singer-songwriter claimed the late star - who passed away in 2016 - was so furious that she wouldn't become his official protégé after she recorded his song 'Nothing Compares 2 U' in 1990, that he chased her with a pillowcase "filled with something hard".

She said: "We did meet once but we didn't get on very well, we tried to beat each other up. Well, it was more he tried to beat me up and I was defending myself."

While it sounded jovial at first, the 52-year-old went on to clarify: "It's not a joke, it's not a joke at all, it was a very frightening experience actually."

"He summoned me to his house one night and I foolishly went alone, not knowing where I was. He summoned me there because he was uncomfortable with the fact I wasn't a protégé of his, I had just recorded the song, and he was wanting me to be a protégé of his," she recalled.

"He ordered that I don't swear anymore in my interviews but Irish people swear all the time, of course, I told him where he could go."

It was then, she says, that "he went for me".

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"He went upstairs and got a pillow and he had something hard in the pillow and he was chasing me. I ran out of his house and he came after me in his car, we met on the highway in Malibu at 5am, he was going around in his car and I was spitting at him and he was trying to punch me, he's got this pillow he's trying to hit me with.

"Then I had to go and ring someone's doorbell which is what my father always told me to do if I got in a situation like that."

O'Connor went on to claim that the attack was fuelled by drugs and that she never saw or heard from him again after that incident.

She said: "He was into some pretty dark drugs. It was down to drugs at the end of the day, he was doing some pretty dark drugs.

O'Connor's claims come just one week after she dedicated her live performance of the song on Ireland's The Late Late Show to Prince.

Prince was 57 when he died after being unresponsive in an elevator at his home in April 2016.

Autopsy results revealed he died from an accidental overdose of fentanyl — a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin.