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Bob Geldof admits he 'half expected' the death of his daughter Peaches

Bob Geldof has admitted that he was “half-expecting” the death of his daughter Peaches.

The English socialite was just 25 years old when she died from a heroin overdose in April 2014 and the Boomtown Rats singer has admitted the pain of the tragedy will never leave him.

“It’s different. Part of me was half-expecting Peaches to be honest,” he said.

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Tragedy: Peaches died of a heroin overdose in 2014

“The way she was carrying on, there’s nothing you can do about it. She’s the one who is with me every second of the day.”

“She’s the one that bounds into my consciousness at any moment, especially any down moment.”

“I don’t mean a depressing moment, but one where I’m not doing something,” he told Miriam O’Callaghan on RTE Radio 1.

 

“She’s very present. That’s incomprehensible to me still — this thing of being ‘forever 25’, in my head.”

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Memories: Bob said that Peaches still feels very present

Bob also admitted that time hasn’t healed the wounds of his daughter’s death.

“That’s unbearable simply because of that cliche you’re not supposed to see your children die. I wait for it to stop. That’s the lesson: Time doesn’t heal, it accommodates, but it’s not accommodating this.”

However, the 64-year-old explained that music helps to distract him from the pain.

“Is it catharsis on stage? I feel it is. I feel light afterwards, there’s no ache, no gut sadness. That’s why I’m desperate to be on stage,” he said.

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“I was bereft. The leaving was worse than the dying. I couldn’t understand it. I loved her profoundly. I didn’t understand then that love is not enough.”

As an atheist, the Dubliner explained that he has no belief that he will ever see his daughter or his parents again in another life but prefers to remember them as they were.

“None of that stuff works for me. It’s over, that’s it. That’s why part of my parents’ death is a relief for me and them, it’s over,” he said.

“Their ashes, their molecular structure, is still around. We put the ashes around a rose bush and some peach trees.”

The Boomtown Rats perform at Vicar Street

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“They’re still fizzing around in those mad, funny atoms and reassemble themselves into a thing of beauty and that they were.”

 

“Did those awful things have to happen for the good things to abide? No they didn’t.”

“Would you be the same person? Yes I would. It’s a life and you make the most of it.”

Bob and The Boomtown Rats are set to play a special 40th anniversary gig at the Olympia Theatre on December 6

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