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Revealed: Peaches Geldof's widower's new love. He raised two sons alone after her heroin overdose. Now his life has been changed by influencer whose little-known practice has helped bring him peace


Almost 11 years have passed since musician Thomas Cohen made the most distressing discovery imaginable - his wife, Peaches, dead from a heroin overdose, in the spare room of their home.

The tragedy was both desperate and profound, all the more so because of the terrible sense of history repeating itself: Peaches, the blonde, vivacious 25-year-old middle daughter of TV personality Paula Yates and Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, was just 11 years old when her mother died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000. She recently featured on his Instagram page after they posed for a moody, black-and-white photo shoot – looking strikingly similar in matching white vintage dresses, both with long, dark pre-Raphaelite curls. Thomas spoke of finding the routines of childhood helpful as he grieved, telling an interviewer on German TV in 2016: ‘I think the most important thing is to give them stability and safety after losing their mother so early.

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