Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has been found safe after she was reported missing by a caller amid concerns for her welfare, Illinois police say.
A dispatcher at the police department in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette told Sky News: "Sinead O'Connor has been found and she is safe and okay."
The police department had earlier said it was seeking to "check the well-being" of the singer after an unidentified caller expressed concern for her.
O'Connor was recently sued for libel
Police said she had left the Wilmette area for a bicycle ride yesterday at 6am and had not returned.
The 49-year-old singer had recently posted Facebook messages about an apparent custody dispute involving her sons.
In November last year, O'Connor suggested on social media that she had taken an overdose at a hotel somewhere in Ireland, accusing family members of "appalling cruelty", but she was later found safe.
A month later, she posted on Facebook that she was undergoing a mental health evaluation at a hospital.
It is not known why the mother-of-four is in Wilmette, an affluent community along the shores of Lake Michigan.
She recently said she planned to demonstrate in North Carolina, which has passed a bathroom law that critics say targets transgender people.
O'Connor was sued this month in a $5m libel lawsuit after she suggested comedian Arsenio Hall had provided drugs to the late pop singer Prince.
Prince, who died on 21 April, wrote O'Connor's 1990 hit ballad Nothing Compares 2 U.
Paradigm Talent Agency, which represents O'Connor, did not immediately comment on Monday's reports.
The singer-songwriter - who has been married four times - is known for her shaved head as much as for her outspoken views.
She made headlines in 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a live appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
Two years earlier some US radio stations boycotted her music after she banned the Star-Spangled Banner from one of her shows in New Jersey.
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