Bob Geldof: "One of us didn’t make it… And it was very difficult.”

“One of us didn’t make it… And it was very difficult.”

They’re the incredibly sad words from Sir Bob Geldof in the wake of his daughter Peaches’ death earlier this year.

In a heartbreaking interview, Geldof has lashed out at the media and their actions following the 25-year-old’s death from a heroin overdose.

Peaches Geldof, a television presenter and model, was found dead in her Kent, UK home by her husband Thomas Cohen on April 7.

Now, six months after her tragic passing, 63-year-old Irish musician and activist Geldof has told The Guardian his children were hounded by the media from an early age.

“Whatever people think about us, this is a normal family. Close the door and it’s normal… It’s still homework, it’s still tea time”, he said, speaking in an interview about his band The Boomtown Rats.

“And it’s having to go to school in the morning. But it’s having to go to school where, on more than several occasions, there were 40 photographers walking backwards in front of you,” he said.

In a rare attack on British media, Sir Geldof took particular aim at the UK publication The Daily Mail – saying it had ‘bullied’ his daughters for years.

“You know, the children were never, ever, ever given a break, particularly by The Daily Mail, who engaged in a lifelong exercise in bullying,” he says. “These tiny little girls – never once did they write anything about their courage, their strength, their beauty, their abilities,” he said.

“If they went to a teenage party, then they were out of control, they were exactly following in their mother’s footsteps – and look at her, guess what she was – and this would be posted on the school noticeboards,” he said.

Peaches mother, Paula Yates, was a television presenter and writer who died of an accidental heroin overdose in 2000; Peaches was one of three daughters Yates and Geldof had together, along with Peaches’ sisters Fifi Trixibelle, 31, Pixie, 24.

(Yates also had daughter Tiger Lily, 18, with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, whom Geldof formally adopted in 2007.)

“The impact when Peaches died was overwhelming,” he said.

“And if it has such an impact on individuals who don’t know you, imagine what the impact of these events is internally, in the family…

“Everyone’s affected, everyone has their own memories and their own narrative, and everybody has always tried to do the best they could…

“One of us didn’t make it… And it was very difficult.”

An inquest into Peaches’ death in July confirmed that the mother-of-two died of a heroin overdose while caring for her 11-month-old son Phaedra Bloom Forever.

Peaches and Cohen’s other child together is Astala Dylan Willow, now two.

Widower Cohen, the former lead singer of the band S.C.U.M, is raising the children in London.