Peaches Geldof's widower Thomas Cohen 'not surprised' at her death
Thomas Cohen shows his two sons pictures of their mother so they won't forget her as he comes to terms with her death.
Friday 31 March 2017 09:41, UK
The widower of Peaches Geldof says he was not surprised after finding her body at their home in Kent following a heroin overdose.
Thomas Cohen, 26, has raised their two sons - Astala, four, and Phaedra, three - after Peaches' death on 7 April, 2014.
Giving a rare interview to German TV station ProSieben, he said his children have now been alive for longer than they knew their mother.
In the interview, reported by German newspaper Bild, he described how just one hour after finding her body he had to focus on giving the two boys their lunch.
He said: "In retrospect, I think she thought the children would close the gap. But that just does not work.
"Heroin is a drug that makes you feel something better than life. This is the terrible thing: you are feeding your body with something that will kill you.
"When I found her, I was not surprised. I thought to myself at that moment 'yes of course - you had to do that'.
"What I remember, it must have been an hour after I found her, that it's time for the kids' lunch. They needed their lunch.
"So I took the children's chairs to the table, took the yoghurts out of the fridge, the bananas."
Mr Cohen, former frontman for the band S.C.U.M, told the newspaper he shows his children pictures of Peaches every few weeks so they won't forget her.
He said the routine of looking after the two boys has helped him deal with his grief, and said he knows learning about their mother's death will be hard for the children when they are teenagers.
He added: "There is always hope, even in the greatest grief. You must not let yourself be eaten by grief or transfer it to your children.
"It takes a while, but now we can look forward."
Peaches' mother, Paula Yates, also died from a heroin overdose in 2000 aged 41.