Bob Geldof's grief for late daughter Peaches is 'bottomless, intimate and ever-present'

Bob Geldof has referred to the grief of losing his daughter Peaches, nearly six years ago, as ‘bottomless’ and ‘ever-present’.

The musician, 68, whose daughter died of a heroin overdose at age 25 in April 2014, recently attended the funeral of a friend’s son, forcing him to reflect on Peaches’ death.

Speaking on The Tommy Tiernan Show on Ireland’s RTÉ One, Bob said: ‘Last week I went to the funeral of my mate’s son, and he didn’t want me to come for fear that I’d relive it but I had to be there for him cause it is unbearable.

Reflection: Bob Geldof has referred to the grief of losing his daughter Peaches, nearly six years ago, as ‘bottomless’ and ‘ever-present’

‘Time doesn’t heal, time accommodates, it’s ever-present.’

He went on to add: ‘You’re driving along and you’re at the traffic lights and for no reason whatsoever the person in question inhabits you.

‘And I’ll cry and then I’ll look around to make sure the people around don’t see me or are posting a photo or whatever – but that happens and that happens to everyone.

‘You just do it, you cry to the maximum and then you go, the grief is bottomless and intimate. I didn’t understand why I lost everything I thought to be true.’

Tragic: Peaches died of a heroin overdose at age 25 in April 2014

Evoking memories: Bob recently attended the funeral of a friend’s son, forcing him to reflect on Peaches’ death [pictured in 2003]

Bob – who also has daughters Fifi, 36, Pixie, 29, and Heavenly, 23 – added: ‘It’s all extremely public, but that’s the nature of my life and job.’

In 2015, Bob revealed in a heart-breaking interview that he had ‘half-expected’ his daughter’s death – which was a haunting reflection of that of her own mother Paula Yates, who died from a heroin overdose in 2000 at the age of 41.

He said his daughter is ‘with him every second of the day’ and that she is ‘very present’.

Speaking to Miriam O’Callaghan on Irish radio station RTÉ Radio 1, the Boomtown Rats frontman said: ‘With Peaches… I was half-expecting it. The way she was carrying on, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Debts: The mother-of-two’s £884,274 estate was used to pay off her debts, and less than half went to her musician husband, Thomas Cohen, and their two sons Astala and Phaedra, who were just three and two-years-old respectively when their mother died [pictured in 2012]

History repeating: In 2015, Bob revealed in a heart-breaking interview that he had ‘half-expected’ his daughter’s death – which was a haunting reflection of that of her own mother Paula Yates [pictured], who died from a heroin overdose in 2000 at the age of 41

‘This thing of being forever 25, in my head, that’s unbearable, simply because of that cliché – you’re not supposed to see your children die.

‘But she is the one who is with me every second of the day and she is the one who bangs into my consciousness at any moment, especially in any down moment… where I’m not doing something. She’s very present.’

He added: ‘Time does not heal, it accommodates. But it is not accommodating this.’

Peaches had debts worth some £450,000 at the time of her death, it was reported soon afterwards.

The mother-of-two’s £884,274 estate was used to pay off these debts, and less than half went to her musician husband, Thomas Cohen, and their two sons Astala and Phaedra, who were just three and two-years-old respectively when their mother died.