Bob Geldof ''blames himself'' for his daughter Peaches' death.
The
Boomtown Rats frontman was left devastated in March when the
25-year-old star died from a heroin overdose and he admits her passing
makes him feel like he ''failed'' as a father.
He
said: ''She was super bright, too bright. She knew what life was
supposed to be and God bless her, she tried very hard to get there and
she didn't make it.
''I'm not
just blaming the newspapers, of course not. You blame yourself. You're
the father who's responsible and clearly failed.''
Though
the 63-year-old musician admits he did ''more than talk about''
Peaches' problems with her, Bob - who raised Peaches and her sisters
Fifi, and Pixie and half-sister Tiger following the death of their
mother Paula Yates from an overdose in 2000 - feels he could have done
more.
He told ITV News: ''For
anybody watching, who has a dead kid and you're a parent, you go back,
you go back, you go back, you go back, you go back, you go over, you go
over, what could you have done.''
And
Bob admits he has still not been able to accept his daughter - who had
sons Astala, two, and Phaedra, 17 months, with husband Thomas Cohen - is
gone.
He said: ''The ability
to try and understand or to try to come to terms with the immensity of
the grief is there but it takes a long while for it to filter through.
''I'm not there with Peaches yet. It was all too soon. It was all too sudden. It was unexpected.''