O Connor said about her time in Reform School:

"While it was very traumatic, it was the best thing that ever happened to me actually,"

"They were good to me. They were nice people. The nun that ran the place was the person that bought me my first guitar."

Which makes the 'Magdalene survivor' sound utterly misplaced. She has no personal experience of clerical abuse as far as I can see. She is very vocal about it though.