Peaches Geldof, daughter of Bob Geldof, has died at the age of 25 from currently ‘unexplained and sudden’ causes.
Damn, there’s a lot of tragedy in that family 
It struck me about 23 years ago I used to regularly see her mum Paula, and Peaches and Michael Hutchence at the local swimming pool - just messing around in the toddler pool mainly. They were really pretty happy together, so it seemed. It was in the day time, on week days - very quiet in there. There was another very young child with them as well.
Whoever that was, is the only one still alive. Jesus.
Safe to say Bob probably likes Mondays even less now.
It seems history repeats itself in this tragic family (and I don’t mean anything drug related). Very sad.
If it was a younger child then presumably it was either Pixie (born 1990) or Tiger Lily (born 1996). Yates left Geldof for Hutchance in 1995.
so very sad.
I found Bob’s statement deeply moving:
Whatever happened, no parent should ever outlive a child.
In my minds image one child was maybe 2 1/2, the other not 2 years older… It was definitely Hutchence. The variable is when I lived around there … I left Uni 23 years ago so I was wrong in the first post. Maybe I lived there from around 1992 …
Anyway, it’s a really clear image of a happy group.
The other thing that stays in the mind - and this isn’t my classiest moment - is she had the first fake boobs I’d ever seen, obv. in a bikini.
As above, poor Bob. He’s had a lot to cope with
Fark’s tagline: “Peaches Creamed”
The person who wrote that is definitely going to hell, as am I as soon as I stop chuckling.
Silicon chip went into overload again. Sad.
She died of a heroin overdose:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10800169/Peaches-Geldof-killed-by-heroin-ovedose.html
There’s a surprise.
Even the joy of motherhood couldn’t stop the old destructive behavior. From what I’ve read her desire to be a great mom had resulted in positive changes. But the love for her precious baby couldn’t defeat the craving for drugs.
R.I.P. Peaches.
Once someone becomes addicted to Heroin, it just about never lets them go - at least not until they die - not always but far too often.
What a shame! Her death will cause so much pain for so many others. From what I have read, she was loved by a great many people who will now be devastated at this news.
I am reminded of how many people want to legalize drugs. I don’t think that throwing people into jail on account of using drugs helps anything. But it seems to me that becoming addicted to Heroin is almost always a fatal event in one’s life and we should try as hard as we can to prevent anyone from ever falling down that pit.
So tragic.
Well there are drugs, and there are drugs. I don’t think anyone not on the fringe is suggesting that heroin be legal.
William S. Burroughs wrote in Naked Lunch ‘Don’t try heroin. Not even once.’ He spoke from experience.
(Actually, I think the quote was ‘Don’t try any man-made drug; not even once, or you may never be able to close that door ever again.’ Of course he did and lived a long time; but still…)
Yes indeed. I should have said that it was Heroin that should never be legalized. For those people who have never tried it once, they should be very happy about that.
Many years ago, I had a friend who would laugh and joke while he “shot up” Heroin into his arm. Earlier this year, I thought about trying to contact him again. But I realized that would almost surely be a lost cause.
I once went into a treatment center and saw a poem on the wall. It was written by a former Heroin addict and it warned people that if they ever tried Heroin, they would very likely be doomed.