Bob Geldof attacks family court over treatment of Peaches and Fifi: Singer says rulings made it impossible to take care of his children after he split from Paula Yates
Mother-of-two Peaches, 25, died from a heroin overdose in April, while 31-year-old Fifi revealed a lifelong struggle with depression, drugs and alcohol in August.
Now, Boomtown Rats singer Geldof, 63, has claimed the courts made it impossible for him to take care of his daughters following his separation from their mother, Paula Yates, in 1995.
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Judges ruled that their mother should take the children with her, leaving Geldof only permitted to see them once a fortnight at the start. He said he was ‘ruined’ when he was left by Yates.
Geldof told Saga Magazine: ‘I blame the entire family court system for so much of their subsequent pain. All I wanted was to see my kids 50 per cent of the time.
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Geldof blames courts for daughters’ pain
Bob Geldof blames Britain’s family courts for the emotional pain endured by his daughter Peaches, who died of a heroin overdose in April, and Fifi, who has recently revealed her battle with depression and alcohol abuse. The Times Story
The singer said that the courts made it impossible for him to take care of his children after he parted from their mother, Paula Yates, in 1995.
Bob Geldof talks to Saga Magazine
The death of Peaches Geldof and the confession of sister Fifi of her battles with depression, drink and drugs has propelled Bob Geldof into the limelight, 30 years since Band Aid made him a household name for all the right reasons. Here he blames the family court system for failing his children and of the near-literal heartbreak he suffered when Paula Yates left him. Exclusive by Mark Ellen.
Bob wrote a bestselling memoir and continued campaigning tirelessly to help release the worst-hit African countries from their crippling debts and to feed and clothe their destitute communities. This he achieved by working at the highest possible level, addressing the world’s news cameras alongside such masters of the universe as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and George W Bush.
But his own fortunes were about to turn around, and in the most catastrophic and over-publicised manner imaginable. His by-then wife Paula Yates left him for the dissolute Australian INXS star Michael Hutchence, and took their three daughters with her (to add to the chaos she then discovered her father was not Jess Yates, the TV presenter of Stars on Sunday, but the gameshow host Hughie Green). Hutchence killed himself and Paula died of a drug overdose three years later, in 2000, at the age of 41.
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