Dickensian childhood: Peaches Geldof said she and her siblings went to school the day after their mother's accidental overdose. Source: Getty Images
AT seven, her idyllic childhood was ripped apart when her parents divorced. By 11, her beloved mother was dead from a heroin overdose.
Peaches Geldof has spoken for the first time about her heartache, telling Elle magazine she is determined to give her baby son Astala the stable family life she never had.
The 23-year-old said she had never got over the divorce of her mother Paula Yates and father Sir Bob Geldof. And although she admitted turning to drink and drugs as a teenager, she said the memory of her mother always stopped her spiralling out of control.
Paula Yates with ex-husband Bob Geldof in 1993. Source: Supplied
"I was completely aware of the whole situation, the transition of my mother who was amazing, who wrote books on parenting, who gave us this idyllic childhood in Kent; and who then turned into this heartbroken shell of a woman who was just medicating to get through the day.
"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.
"It was like living on a permanent see-saw and very scary and sad. Those feelings have always stayed with me, they just never went away.''
Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates with baby Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily in Sydney in 1997. Picture: Jeff Darmanin Source: News Limited
Hutchence was found hanged in a Sydney hotel room in 1997, and three years later Yates died from an accidental heroin overdose.
Geldof said: "I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out. I went to school the next day because my father's mentality was 'keep calm and carry on'.
"So we all went to school and tried to act as if nothing had happened. But it had happened. I didn't grieve. I didn't cry at her funeral. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all.
"I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.''
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