Bob Geldof has spoken about his decision to propose to his girlfriend the day after he buried his daughter Peaches, saying the family were “suffocating with grief” and “needed air”.
During an interview with RTE Radio One, the Boomtown Rats frontman admitted he was worried proposing to Jeanne, his girlfriend of 19 years would seem “inappropriate”.
“Peaches’ sisters [Pixie and Fifi] were in agony,” he said. “We could either let time do its thing but time doesn’t heal, it just accommodates.”
Geldof said he had been playing to propose for some time but worried it would be inappropriate.
“We were suffocating with grief and we needed air in the room. We needed light in that air.
“I’’m getting Bono-ish here but love is all you need.”
Peaches died of a heroin overdose at her home in Kent in April 2014.
An inquest found there was evidence of codeine, methadone and morphine in her blood stream, with a pathologist confirming that the levels of heroin in her body were in a “fatal range”.
Her widowed husband, Thomas Cowan, with whom she had two young sons, said during the inquest that his wife had been taking regular drugs tests, but now believed she had been lying when she said they were clear.
