Was Peaches Geldof An Addict?

Peaches Geldof was a heroin overdose, a coroner ruled. The TV presenter had been a heroin addict and took the substitute drug methadone for two and a half years before her death.

A police search found 6.9g of heroin in her house but there was no indication she had planned to take her own life.

Peaches’ husband, Tom Cohen told the hearing in Gravesend his wife had started using the drug again that year. He had witnessed her flushing drugs she had hidden in their loft down the toilet but was not aware of other drugs in the house until they were down by the police.

Geldof’s mother, Paula Yates died of a heroin overdose at the age of 41 when Peaches was 11 years old.

Coroner Roger Hutch said: “It’s the said that the death of Peaches Geldof-Cohen is history repeating itself but this is not entirely so.