Courtney Love 'tried to help Peaches Geldof off heroin, but it was impossible'

Courtney Love has spoken out about her relationship with Peaches Geldof, recalling the late star's drug use and how she tried to help her. 

The writer and daughter of Boomtown Rats' frontman Bob Geldof, tragically died last month at her home in Kent. An inquest later found that heroin was in her system when she passed away. Peaches had two children with husband and former S.C.U.M. frontman Tom Cohen, and was also the daughter TV presenter Paula Yates - who herself died of a drugs overdose. 

Now, in an interview with Grazia, Love spoke out about her own recovery from drug-use, and how she witnessed Peaches' struggle with class A's first-hand. 

"When I read heroin was involved I was not shocked," said Love. "I know how Peaches liked opiates.  My drug was heroin, I stopped taking it in the 90s, but I have taken the pills, the Roxycontin, Oxycontin."

Love continued: "Peaches was unfortunately in my room with a friend who had a bag full of these drugs… like 500 pills and I wanted it so badly, never have I wanted anything more, no man, no money, and I had to physically push Peaches and her friend out the door.

"I was shaking and kept thinking of the way her mother died and I thought I owe it to this girl to be an example. I was trying to help her, I was trying to mentor her, but that that point in her life, it proved to be impossible. Now the parallels to her Mommy are horrific."

Following the 25-year-old's death, father Bob Geldof issued a statement saying that the family were 'beyond pain', and remembering Peaches as 'the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us'.

Tom Cohen added:  "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her forever."