Sinead O'Connor revealed her record company told her to terminate pregnancy

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Before her death, Sinead O'Connor claimed her record company wanted her to terminate her pregnancy in 1987 to focus on recording her first album.

The singer opened up about her life and career in Nothing Compares, the latest documentary from Sky, and spoke about becoming pregnant with her first son, Jake.The Irish singer and activist died on 26 July, aged 56.

Sinead was recording her first album, The Lion and the Cobra, when she learnt of her pregnancy at the age of 20 - and said the record company NSign asked her to reconsider carrying the baby. "The record companies in those days had their own doctors that they sent you to," she said. "The doctor announces that the record company have spent £100,000 making a record, you owe it to them not to have this baby." Deciding to keep her baby, Sinead pushed back and scrapped the first version of her album. "It was a response to them telling me I owed it to them not to have a baby.

I was like, ‘Well, it ain’t worth it for a s**t f**king record,'" she continued. Mike Clowes, a member of Sinead's band, added: "NSign tried to dissuade her from carrying on the pregnancy and giving birth to Jake. "Thankfully, she obviously stood her ground but they did put pressure on her to terminate the pregnancy." Sinead gave birth to her son Jake in 1987 - her first and only child with her first husband, record producer John Reynolds.