Arsenio Hall has responded to Sinead O’ Connor’s Facebook claims that he supplied Prince with drugs by hitting her with a $5 million defamation lawsuit.
Hall’s attorneys filed the suit on Thursday after O’ Connor went on a Facebook rant earlier this week accusing Prince of being a “longtime hard drug user” and saying that he got his supply from “Arsenio Hall (AKA Prince’s and Eddie Murphy’s bitch).”
The comedian denied her claim and said that he hasn’t spoken to her in more than two decades. He added that O’ Connor did not like Prince and during a meeting she had with the Purple Rain star told him to “F**k off.”
O’ Connor told a similar story about a meeting with the late singer and said that they had a physical confrontation. Years later, however, she claimed that the media exaggerated that story.
Prince was found unresponsive and pronounced dead in his Paisley Park home on April 21. His exact cause of death has not been made public.