19 and Pregnant With the Drummer’s Baby
In 1986, O’Connor started working on her own debut, The Lion and the Cobra, but it all came to a screeching halt when the 19-year-old got pregnant by her drummer, John Reynolds (her first husband). She revealed years later that when she announced her pregnancy to the studio, they sent her to a doctor who pressured her to terminate the pregnancy.
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She was told: “Your record company has spent one hundred thousand quid recording your record, and you owe it to them not to have the baby.” According to O’Connor, the doctor even tried to convince her that “terrible things would happen to the baby.” She even swore “on a stack of Bibles that that’s literally what happened.”