Any sympathy I had for Peaches has all but vanished now that we know heroin was involved (the children should have come first and her enablers should be held to account as much as Peaches herself, as they should have put those poor little boys first as well and got them away from the situation as a priority ), but, with that said, I feel I must correct some of you on the family history.
Paula Yates was NOT a junkie for nearly all of Peaches childhood, nor was her talking about her family/parenting a means to feed her habit. The tragic fact about her mother's demise was that she was well known as being virtually tea-total, all through the 1980s when most of her interviewees where most certainly not, and her behaviour, once she left Bob, was a complete shock and said to be completely out of character by those who knew her, and had known her for many years...
Some might blame Michael Hutchence (there are others that the finger of blame should be pointed at as well, but thats another issue), but what it boiled down to was a woman whose whole sense of self had been thrown into turmoil by the discovery that her father was not her father, and she rebelled, out of a long buried anger at being told how to act and live by a very religious man, whom she now knew was of no biological relation to her... An utterly selfish and pointless act, that has now claimed its third victim.
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