Filmmaker Kathyrn Ferguson Insists Releasing The Documentary About The ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ Singer Only Days After Her Death Is ‘The Right Thing To Do.’
Sinead O’Connor‘s documentarian states she feels as if she has “lost a limb” since the singer’s death. Northern Irish filmmaker Kathyrn Ferguson’s film on Sinead’s abusive upbringing and painful rise to fame, titled “Nothing Compares”, controversially premiered on Sky on Saturday, July 29 days after the star’s death in London three days earlier.
Kathyrn has insisted she has had a positive reaction to the film despite backlash at highlighting Sinead’s painful past – which included beatings as a child, a traumatic relationship with her mum, and a miscarriage she says she was pressured into by music bosses.
She tweeted, “The reaction to the film and love for Sinead has been palpable. ‘Nothing Compares’ is a love letter to Sinead. She meant the absolute world to me.”
Kathryn defended the film being shown in a lengthy Twitter thread on the eve it aired, saying, “We had been scheduled to release ‘Nothing Compares’ today on Sky / Now for a very long time and after lots of thought we are going to go ahead with that plan… we feel screening it this weekend is the right thing to do, so that people can see her in all her glory and hear her tell her side of the story.”