Bob Geldof: Peaches' Death Left Me Feeling Suicidal

Singer Bob Geldof has revealed in a recent interview that he considered suicide after the death of his daughter Peaches.

The 64-year-old singer was distraught following the untimely passing of the his daugher, who died from a drugs overdose in 2014 aged 25, reported The Daily Mirror.

“I’d make lists and keep working at the writing of those lists until the upside overwhelmed the downside. In my case I wrote down, ‘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.”

“I had the sanity, luckily, to phone a friend and tell him, ‘Look I think I’m just starting to get rationally irrational.’ He almost slapped my face (with his tone) and said, ‘Don’t do anything stupid, stay exactly where you are’ and came around very quickly. People talk you through these things.”

Geldof also admitted that his long-term lover, Jeanne Marine, who he proposed to following the incident, helped him through his grief.

“Peaches had just died and I decided that John Lennon, in all his glorious naivety, was right; love is all you need…”