Peaches Geldof was scared of the drug that ultimately took her life. She was scared of herself, as so many addicts are.
In what looks like the final interview before her death, the 25-year-old model/actress spoke openly about heroin, fame, and the dangers of both. It’s genuinely heartbreaking, to read the words of the now-deceased mother of two small children.
Speaking to William Todd Schultz at The Spectator, Peaches described how strange and difficult it was to grow up famous.
When they chatted, Phillip Seymour Hoffman had just died of an overdose. Peaches was a great fan of his, and had this eery thing about the fate they ended up sharing:
‘Heroin is such a bleak drug. It always makes me so sad to hear about people like Hoffman who were real masters and also family men who were just wasted by the constant, gnawing obsession with it. All heroin users seem to have the same core internal pain, though. It’s a fascinating concept — drug of choice.’
Peaches was found dead in her home on April 7 of this year, with her son close by. A post-mortem said it was most likely she died from heroin overdose, which is the same tragic ending her mother, Paula Yates, met.
Peaches grew up fearing that exact outcome, as she told The Spectator. “Your life, they keep telling you, is pre-ordained: “I’m going to die like my mother, she’s going to end up like her mother.”
The fact that she did end up like her mother is devastating for the Geldof family, Peaches’ husband and her two children.
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Just tragic for the family .... Selfish is the word I would use but addiction is an awful roller coaster
Tragic or selfish. What makes a parent choose to go out and buy heroin instead of seek help?, lets be honest she had choices, did she choose to take the children with her when buying heroin or did she hire a babysitter to look after them?, that is a choice she would have had to make before she even left the house and BEFORE she was under the influence of heroin, then there was the choice to inject herself when she was the only adult at home to look after her children, it's not like she would be unaware of the possible consequences of heroin!. Tragic for her children and her family, but to look at your young children and not think what the f*☆ck am I about to do is selfish.