Bob Geldof Blames Himself for Daughter Peaches' Death
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Bob Geldof blames himself for the death of his daughter, Peaches, from a heroin overdose.
"You blame yourself…the father who's responsible and clearly failed," the Irish rocker and activist, 63, told ITV News in the U.K. Wednesday evening.
"Anybody watching that has a dead kid and you're a parent," he added, "you go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go over, you go over, over. What could you have done? You do as much as you can."
The 25-year-old TV presenter and mother of two was found dead in her Wrotham, Kent, home April 7. A coroner ruled in July that she died of a heroin overdose.
Her famous father knew that she was being treated for heroin addiction.
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"She was super bright," he said. "Too bright. She knew what life was supposed to be, and God bless her, she tried very hard to get there. And she didn't make it."
He said the constant reminders in the media of her mother's death-Geldof's former wife Paula Yates also died of a heroin overdose in 2000-had "damaged" Peaches and his other children.
Though he is still trying to make sense of her death-"It was all too sudden, too unexpected," he said-he is able to escape some of his sadness by returning on tour with his band, the Boomtown Rats.
"It is utterly cathartic," he told ITV. "Those two hours and I am drained. And it's a very brief respite."