Bob Geldof has said he thought about killing himself after his daughter Peaches died of an overdose.
Peaches Geldof was found dead in her Kent home in 2014 after taking what an inquest found to be a “life-threatening” amount of heroin. Her death mirrored that of her mother, Paula Yates, who also died of a heroin overdose in 2000.
Speaking to The Daily Mirror, the 64-year-old singer said he called a friend for support, who persuaded him out of doing anything stupid.
The Live Aid founder explained he’d keep on making lists until the positives outweighed the negatives.
“In my case I wrote: ‘What’s the upside of being alive?’ and ‘What’s the downside of it?’. Was it ever really serious? Overall, no. In that moment though, perhaps it was,” Geldof explained.
“I had the sanity, luckily, to phone a friend and tell him, ‘Look I think I’m just starting to get irrational. He almost slapped my face (with his tone) and said ‘Don’t do anything f***ing stupid, stay exactly where you are’ and came around very quickly."
Peaches was found dead at the home she shared with her husband Thomas Cohen and their two sons, Phaedra and Astala.
An inquest found there to be evidence of morphine, codeine and methadone in her blood stream and police found more than 80 syringes in different parts of the house, some of which had not been used.
Geldof proposed to his girlfriend of 19 years, Jeanne Marine, the day after Peaches was buried. They got married last year.
