Musician Thomas Cohen was tragically widowed in 2014 when his wife, Peaches Geldof, died of a heroin overdose less than a year after welcoming their second child
Musician Thomas Cohen has opened up about his happiness to have found love again following the tragic death of wife Peaches Geldoff.
The 33-year-old pop-punk frontman was left devastated when he discovered Peaches dead of a heroin overdose in 2014 at the age of 25 while their 11-month-old son Phaedra was at her side. The heart-wrenching discovery was made after Thomas grew concerned that Peaches was not answering her phone, finding her in a spare room of their house in Kent.
Peaches, who was the daughter of late model Paula Yates and Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, struggled with drugs and battled her addiction to heroin for two years before she died of an overdose which was not believed to have been intentional. During an inquest into her death, it was heard that she hid her addiction and drugs from her husband.
Thomas, who welcomed Phaedra, now aged 11, and older son Astala, now 12 – and who had been with his grandparents at the time of Peaches’ death – began dating model Yasmin El Yassini, 30, in 2019. He has now opened up about their relationship in a candid comment.
The Daily Mail quotes him declaring in a rare comment about his private life: “It’s a relief to actually be able to love someone.” His new comments come years after he opened up about how he helped his sons cope with the loss of their mother.
He told a German TV show in 2016: “I think the most important thing is to give them stability and safety after losing their mother so early. They have now lived longer than they knew their mother. They were just one and two years at the time. They are, miraculously, having happy childhoods.”
And more recently, the musician has explained how he utilised transcendental meditation to help overcome his grief. He said in an interview last year, per the Daily Mail: “It completely changed everything. It was incredibly profound.” He went on to explain that the form of meditation gave him: “the tools to not stay in pain.”
Speaking to the Guardian in 2016, Thomas reflected on the fact that Peaches’s addiction troubles heightened the fear he felt of being in love. He told the publication: “I think any time you love someone, you’re slightly scared of it.
“But when they have addiction issues and the border of life and death is so constant and close and intertwined throughout the whole thing, it’s heightened. But that doesn’t take away from any of the experience or relationship.”
Asked if he felt scared to love his boys, he replied: “Nooooooo, they’re not scary! I think with kids, I just knew that I was very ready to love something the way you love a child.”
Peaches’ mother, Paula Yates, also died from a heroin overdose at the age of 41 in 2000. She was also mother to 41-year-old Fifi and 34-year-old Pixie Geldof, who she welcomed with Bob, and 28-year-old daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, who she shared with late INXS singer Michael Hutchence – who died aged 37 in 1997.
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