Sinad OConnors friend Bob Geldof is opening up about his final exchange with the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, who died last week at age 56.

Geldof reflected on his friendship with OConnor after taking the stage at Irelands Cavan Calling Festival with his band the Boomtown Rats on Saturday.

Many, many times Sinead was full of a terrible loneliness and a terrible despair, said Geldof, according to the Independent . She was a very good friend of mine. We are talking right up to a couple of weeks ago.

As for the nature of his conversation with OConnor, he added: Some of the texts were laden with desperation and despair and sorrow and some were ecstatically happy. And she was like that.

Geldof also noted during the show that he and OConnor grew up in the same Irish neighborhood and even took the same bus together to school.

And as Billboard pointed out, he also suggested that he may have partly inspired OConnors controversial 1992 Saturday Night Live appearance, during which she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II.