The late Dolores O’Riordan’s mother Eileen has spoken out about her daughter’s fame, and how it affected her life six months after her tragic death.
Dolores, who died suddenly in London back in January, left behind three kids, Taylor, Molly and Dakota, who their grandmother now says she hopes do not achieve the levels of world wide fame that their mother did as lead singer of The Cranberries.
“When people say that Dolores’ children, my grandchildren, would follow in her footsteps – I would hope not,” Eileen told the Irish Sun.
“Keep things a bit simpler. I know she did an awful lot of good in her life – no one knows the amount of good she did.
“All the letters I have with people telling me, ‘I wouldn’t be here only for Dolores. She saved me’.”
“It can bring its own stresses and when you are very famous then you have no life. You make true sacrifices really,”
“She could go nowhere. Anywhere she went she was recognised – anywhere in the world!”
The news of the 46-year-old’s passing shocked the world, and Eileen opened up about the last time she spoke to her daughter, as well as getting that terrible phone call.
“I was talking to her at two o’clock in the morning. We would be chatting all the time. I got a call around nine o’clock the same morning that something was wrong.
“It was a couple of hours before I knew what happened. It didn’t sink in.
“Immediately when I knew she was dead I wanted to make sure they got a priest to her. The priest went to the morgue. I didn’t fly over.”
RIP Dolores.
