Sir Bob Geldof Reveals He Contemplated Suicide After Daughter Peaches' Death

Sir Bob Geldof has spoken candidly of how he contemplated suicide following the death of his daughter Peaches. 

The singer has admitted he struggled to cope after Peaches died after a heroin overdose in 2014. 

Speaking about his grief, the Boomtown Rats frontman told The Mirror: “I’d make lists and keep working at the writing of those lists until the upside overwhelmed the downside.

“In my case I wrote: ‘What’s the upside of being alive?’ and ‘What’s the downside of it?’. Was it ever really serious? Overall, no. In that moment though, perhaps it was."

Luckily, Bob was talked around by a friend, revealing: “I had the sanity, luckily, to phone a friend and tell him, ‘Look I think I’m just starting to get irrational’.

“He almost slapped my face (with his tone) and said ‘Don’t do anything f***ing stupid, stay exactly where you are’ and came around very quickly. People talk you through these things.”

Adding of how his close friends had helped him through the aftermath of Peaches' death, Bob said: "Men and women are very different. Women want you to talk everything out whereas with men it's good enough if we're just each other.

"I remember the lads coming around and just occasionally catching each other's eye. Nobody really said anything but when they'd all gone I felt they had given me a bit of relief."

Peaches was found dead at the home she shared with husband Thomas Cohen and their two sons, Astala and Phaedra, in April 2014. 

It was later revealed that she had overdosed on heroin, tragically dying in the same way as her mother, Paula Yates, did in 2000. 

Since Peaches' death, Bob has found tied the knot with long-term partner, Jeanne Marine, who he married last year. 

He previously claimed that proposing to her had helped him come to terms with the loss of his daughter, explaining to an Irish radio station that he "couldn't have survived" without her. 

"We could either let time do its thing [to heal the grief], but time doesn't heal, it just accommodates," he told RTE Radio One.

"You just push it [grief] to the side until it forces its way to your foreconscious again, and then you have to move it and place it back to this deep dark dungeon.

"I thought, 'I have to do something.'"