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Hall, best known as the host of "The Arsenio Hall Show,"
filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against O'Connor in Los
Angeles Superior Court in May, days after she wrote on Facebook
that he supplied hard drugs to Prince for decades.
"Sinead has retracted and apologized for statements she made
about Arsenio last year, which prompted his defamation lawsuit
against her, and the lawsuit has been resolved," Hall's
publicist said in an emailed statement.
O'Connor, whose biggest hit was her 1990 version of the Prince
song "Nothing Compares 2 U," posted a note on her Facebook page
on Wednesday saying her initial claims were false.
"I was wrong to claim Arsenio gave Prince drugs," she wrote.
Prince, whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson, died
unexpectedly last April at age 57 from a prescription drug
overdose at his Paisley Park home and studio in Minnesota.
O'Connor has publicly struggled with her own substance abuse
issues. In late 2015, the firebrand singer said in a Facebook
post that she had deliberately taken a drug overdose.
(Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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