KentOnline

bannermobile

News

Sport

Business

What's On

Advertise

Contact

Other KM sites

CORONAVIRUS WATCH KMTV LIVE SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTERS LISTEN TO OUR PODCASTS LISTEN TO KMFM
SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE
News

Peaches Geldof heroin overdose death: Sir Bob says he blames himself

By: KentOnline reporter multimediadesk@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 00:00, 15 October 2014

Updated: 22:36, 15 October 2014

Sir Bob Geldof says he 'clearly failed' as a parent following the tragic death of his daughter Peaches.

Sir Bob, who lives in Davington, near Faversham, said he had been aware of Peaches' heroin addiction and had tried and failed to help her through it.

In an interview with ITV News, he said: "Of course I knew about it and we did more than talk about it. She was super bright. Too bright. A very errant mind that could focus intensely on a book which she would consume and just absorb it.

Sir Bob Geldof, who lives in Faversham

"But the rest was a franticness. She knew what life was supposed to be and, God bless her, she tried very hard to get there. And she didn’t make it."

Peaches was found dead at her home in Wrotham in April aged just 25, leaving behind two young sons.

mpu1

An inquest heard she had died of a heroin overdose.

Peaches Geldof, who died at her Wrotham home

It was a tragic echo of the death of her mother Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose in 2000.

The Geldof girls were subject to intense media interest following Sir Bob’s split with their mother, Paula Yates, and her subsequent death in 2000 from a heroin overdose.

Floral tributes left outside Bob Geldof's home Davington Priory after the tragic death of his daughter Peaches

Asked directly if he felt responsible for Peaches' death, Sir Bob said: "Yes, of course you do. For anybody watching who has a dead kid and you’re a parent: you go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go over, you go over. What could you have done? You do as much as you can."

Peaches Geldof posted a picture with her mother Paula Yates on Twitter shortly before her death

"When Paula died and Peaches a few months ago… the ability to try and understand, although it is incomprehensible with the immensity of the grief, is there.

"But it takes a long while for it to filter through from the filth to get to the front so you can itemise.

"I am not there with Peaches yet. It is all too soon, all too sudden. Too unexpected."

More by this author

sticky

© KM Group - 2024