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Sinead O'Connor hides marijuana habit from kids

Sinead O’Connor has revealed that she sneaks into her garden to smoke marijuana in order to hide the habit from her children.

The troubled Irish singer, who releases her ninth studio album, 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?' next week, admitted in an interview with Word magazine that her four children, Jake, 24, Roisine, 15, Shane, 7 and Yeshua, 5, are unaware of their mother’s use of the drug:

''Oh the kids don't know I smoke dope! I just sneak down the garden. But kids now, they're very anti-drink and drugs and cigarettes.''

However, the 45-year-old, who recently announced and then retracted a divorce from her newly-wed husband Barry Herridge, confessed that she is much stricter when it comes to her children and drugs:

''With the older one and his mates, yeah, they were smoking dope but they were 18, 19. And I was more worried they'd be out getting arrested. Which has happened.

''So I just said, 'I'm going to pretend I didn't see it and just go down the garden and don't get arrested.' But now I wouldn't allow it. With teenagers you can lose them like that, down a tunnel.''

 

       

 

Watch Sinead's recent performance of 'The Wolf Is Getting Married' on Graham Norton below: