Bob Geldof has spoken out about the pain he has experienced since losing daughter Peaches earlier this year.
In his first interview since the presenter’s death, the Boomtown Rats frontman admitted that he sometimes thinks about his daughter and breaks down in tears while walking down the street .
“I’m walking down the road and suddenly out of the blue there’s an awareness of her – and you know, I buckle,” he said.
“And I’ve got to be very careful because walking down the Kings Road there are paps (paparazzi) everywhere so I have to duck off into a lane or something, and blub for a while and then get on with it and that’s it, so I’d imagine that will be there for a long time, I mean what else?”
Geldof added that although the pain was “still very raw”, he had found returning to the stage quite carthartic.
“It’s intolerable – it’s very hard as everybody must realise, especially if it happened to them too, and what else do you do, you get on with it.”
“I’ve always done that and being on stage is entirely cathartic, it just clears your head I just get on a stage and go mad. If I dwell on the words sometimes I find it hard to struggle through the song because they take on whole meanings that I never meant when I wrote them.”
Mother-of-two Peaches was just 25 when she was found dead at her home in Wrotham in Kent, with an inquest finding that heroin use likely played a role in her death.
Speaking on Lorraine, Geldof said that he felt her children Astala and Phaedra were too young to feel the full impact of their mother’s passing.
“They are so small, the little chaps, that I’m not sure that they’ll have this craving to remember their mum, and I think that is healthy,” he said.
“I don’t want them becoming wrapped up in the Geldof life, it’s great in some respects, it’s appalling in other times.”
