[rey]

“’Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. ‘Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable? ‘We loved her and will cherish her forever. How sad that sentence is. “

THis is the best a father can say of his child? She was 25. It sounds like she was three. She wasn’t smart, intelligent, talented, kind, compassionate, good, he didn’t hit on any of the virtues to describe his daughter, just “wild” and “bonkers”. No wonder she is dead; she was without any virtue whatsoever. It is a miracle she lived this long.

[sharkhawk]

'On top of that, there was my father who was very embittered and depressed about it and for us children, an environment that was impossible, veering between a week with my mother that was complete chaos, and then with my father, which was almost Dickensian – homework, dinner, bed – because he was trying in his own way to combat what was going on at my mother’s.'

Sounds like Geldof tried at one point to keep her on the straight and narrow.