Bob Geldof has made a truly heartbreaking confession, admitting that he contemplated taking his own life following the death of his daughter two years ago.
The Irish star revealed that he was in a really bad place after she passed away, but it was his friends who stopped him from doing anything drastic.
Opening up to the Sunday Independent, Bob said, “I’d make lists and keep working at the writing of those lists until the upside overwhelmed the downside.
“In my case, I wrote down, ‘What’s the upside of being live?’ and ‘What’s the downside of it?;
“Was it ever very serious? Overall, no. In that moment though, perhaps it was.”
He admitted that once he realised how bad the situation had become, he knew it was time to ask a close friend for help.
“I had the sanity, luckily, to phone a friend and tell him ‘look, I think I’m just starting to get rationally irrational.
“He almost slapped my face and said, ‘Don’t do anything f***ing stupid, stay exactly where you are,’ and came around very quickly,” he said.
Bob previously admitted that music helped him get through the whole situation.
“It’s playing live that keeps you sane,” he told Ryan Tubridy on the Late Late Show. “You suddenly don’t have to be normal Bob, once you put on the suit, you’re Bobby Boomtown.
“It doesn’t put anything into perspective, but stuff happens. Everybody here, everybody watching, stuff happens. What do you do? You get on with it.”
