‘My Dolores’ sacrifice for fame’
DOLORES O’Riordan’s grieving mother has described fame as ‘unnatural’ and says she hopes her late daughter’s children never follow in her footsteps.
Speaking in her first full interview since The Cranberries singer died in January, Eileen said Dolores was in effect trapped by her own fame.
She had to make many sacrifices and couldn’t go anywhere in the world without being recognised.
On the issue of fame, she said: ‘It is against nature, isn’t it? It can bring its own stresses.
‘When you are very famous, then you have no life. You make true sacrifices really.’
She added: ‘She could go nowhere. Anywhere she went, she was recognised – anywhere in the world.’
And she said she hopes that Dolores’ three children – Taylor, 20 Molly, 17, and Dakota, 13 – don’t follow in her daughters own footsteps.
She said: ‘When people say that Dolores’ children, my grandchildren, would follow in her footsteps – I would hope not. Keep things a bit simpler.’
Speaking to her local newspaper, The Limerick Leader, Eileen said she last spoke to Dolores by telephone at 2am on the morning of her death in a London hotel room on Monday, January 15.
She had only just been at home in Ballybricken with her mother on the previous Saturday.
The Cranberries singer, who was found dead by cleaners in the Hilton hotel in London, had made Canada her second home.
In February, Eileen told her local paper that Dolores’ children are moving house in Canada because their former home contains ‘too many memories’.