Not surprised when I found Peaches dead
Husband talks of devastating heroin death
PEACHES Geldof’s husband had to get on with making lunch for his children – after not being “surprised” to find their mum dead from a heroin overdose.
happy childhoods”. He added: “They have now lived longer than they knew their mother. They were just one and two years at the time.
“I think the most important thing is to give them stability and safety after losing their mother so early.”
Reflecting on his wife’s death, musician Cohen added: “I think she thought the children would close the gap. But that does not work.
“Heroin makes you feel something that’s better than life.
“This is the terrible thing – you are feeding your body with something that will kill you.”
The same drug killed her mother, Paula Yates, at 41, in 2000.
Cohen said he is now looking forward. “There’s always hope, even in the greatest grief,” he said. were for his children Astala, now five, and Phaedra, four. He said: “It must have been an hour after I’d found her, it was time for the kids’ lunch. They needed it. “So I took the children’s chairs to the table, took the yoghurts out of the fridge, the bananas…after that, the police escorted us away.” Since losing his wife, the 26-year-old dad said the routine of caring for his sons has helped him grieve. And he said the children are “miraculously having
Thomas Cohen discovered the body of Bob Geldof ’s 25-year-old daughter at home in Kent on April 7, 2014. Her baby son had been alone with her body for 17 hours.
He said: “When I found her, I was not surprised. I thought to myself at that moment: ‘Yes of course – you had to do that.’”
In a rare interview on German TV, Cohen said his first thoughts