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The country home belonging to Peaches Geldof remains abandoned and unused since the young star tragically died there earlier this year.
Peaches was found dead at the age of just 25, by her husband Thomas Cohen, at her countryside manor in Kent, in April. A London inquest later heard that it was a heroin overdose that took her life in a sad repetition of her mother, Paula Yates’ own death, also at the hands of drugs.
Peaches shared the traditional country home with her two sons: Astala, two and Phaedra, aged one and husband Thomas, 24. It is reported though that the musician is still too haunted by the death of his wife to return to the place that they called home.
A neighbour told the UK’s Mirror, that the sight of the property in its current dishevelled estate saddens the local community, who are reminded of what happened there. “When you see Peaches’ house looking virtually untouched, it brings back what happened. It is all so very sad.”
A lonely pram still sits abandoned by the front door at the property, which still remains solely in Peaches’ name.
Clearly, the memories that Thomas associates with the house are just too painful to revisit.
Peaches and Thomas with one of their baby sons, during happier times.
Another unnamed neighbour previously told the Daily Mail that: “Thomas hasn’t been back to the house for a long time. Whenever he needs something, he gets his mum to pick it up.”
“He is haunted by what has happened and is constantly reminded of Peaches and the happy times they shared, as well as the moment he found her.”
The heartbroken Thomas has instead been living at his parents’ home in London, along with his two sons, while the Kent property he used to share with his wife becomes unkempt and overgrown with weeds.
Peaches’ father Bob Geldof is also still mourning the loss of his young daughter and has said that he blames himself her untimely death. Speaking to the UK’s ITV news, he said that as Peaches’ parent he was responsible for her “and clearly failed”.
Far from shunning the public life since the tragic news of his daughter’s death though, Bob, 63, has channelled his grief into more altruistic activities. He recently led the 30 year reunion of Band Aid’s charitable Christmas single “Do They Know it’s Christmas” which saw a bevvy of new stars, and some returning ones, uniting to record the fundraising single in time for Christmas. The single, which went straight to number one in the UK, aims to raise funds to help fight Ebola in Africa.
Speaking to ITV about Peaches’ heroin addiction, Bob said “Of course I knew about it [her heroin addiction] and we did talk about it.
“She was super bright. Too bright. A very errant mind that could focus intensely on a book which she would consume and just absorb it. But the rest was a franticness. She knew what life was supposed to be and, God bless her, she tried very hard to get there. And she didn’t make it.”
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