Revealed: Peaches Geldof's widow'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
Revealed: Peaches Geldof's widow'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
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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 in Wrotham, Kent. At her side was their 11-month-old son, Phaedra, who could have been with his mother’s body for up to 17 hours before Thomas, worried when Peaches hadn’t returned his calls, went to the house and found them both.
![[Thomas embraces his former wife Peaches Geldof in 2012. The model sadly passed away two years later from a heroin overdose]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/16/94481603-14322167-image-a-6_1737734764868.jpg)
Thankfully their older son, Astala, then two, had been staying with his grandparents in South London at the time while he was busy with rehearsals. 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.
![[Bob Geldof and Paula Yates smile with daughters Fifi Trixiebelle and newborn Peaches - who was only 11 when her mother also died from a heroin overdose in 2000]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/24/16/94481605-14322167-image-m-8_1737734796630.jpg)
Paula had been left grief-stricken after the suicide of her lover, the Australian lead singer and founder of supergroup INXS Michael Hutchence, three years earlier. After finding himself a widower and single father at the age of 23, Thomas stepped out of the spotlight and was scarcely seen as he devoted his life to raising the boys, now aged 12 and 11, at his home in north Kent.
