Thanks for the thread, OP! Gonna try and catch up with it all this weekend. Glad this thread exists, I've always been weirdly fascinated with the Geldof family. I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, Paula Yates was ev.ery.where. I just recall that 1995-1997 era, if the tabs weren't featuring Diana, they'd be featuring Paula. The last few years of her life were crazy, it went from her presenting the BB and being married to Bob to affair!divorce!custody!Baby!drugs!Hutchencedead!HughieGreen!rehab!death. It was all so sad and insane and quick, how much her life spiralled. I always liked her, she was charming, witty and clever and had a quirky style, but she made dreadful life decisions.
I was always interested in how her 4 girls turned out, and Peaches was, like her mum, such tabloid fodder. Even though she seemed arrogant and didn't have Paula's charisma, I felt bad for her and wanted her life to turn out well. A few months before she died my other half read blinds about her taking coke openly at parties and I (so naive) was all, "she wouldn't do that! She has two tiny babies!" I truly thought those babies would stabilise her life and was absolutely stunned when she died.
I always think of a magazine interview Peaches did, around the height of her fame days, around her first marriage. She was really affronted at comparisons to her mum's chaotic life (rather than Peaches emulating her career), she said something about how odd it would be her mother had been killed in a car accident, would everyone then assume Peaches would die in a car accident? Fair enough. But the terrible thing is, she DID have the exact same death as her mum, right down to her youngest baby being alone with her body for hours. Just unbearably devastating.