It was a stance - in which she used a television programme to plead her cause a la Diana - which dashed much of the public sympathy which followed the double blow of her lover's death and the revelation about her parentage.

Heroin overdose killed Yates". BBC News. 8 November 2000. Archived from the original on 5 March 2009 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. Peaches Geldof: Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25". BBC News. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. Apart from writing the number one (in 12 countries) chart song "The Saints Are Coming" Richard has directed 6 movies and hosted the Film Show for MTV. He has met the great the good (and the bad) in Hollywood and the music industry. Yet in April this year, with the approach of her 40th she said; ''I think the worst is definitely over'', as she embarked on a new career move as agony aunt for a new magazine, Aura.

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But it is her indomitable spirit that people remember, and her wholeheartedness in life and love. Paula Yates was a survivor. In a magazine interview last year, she said: "It's only the mothering instinct that makes you willing to suffer every day. I know it sounds like a Victorian novel, but it's true. Right now, I still think living is a noble gesture." In June 1998, Geldof won full custody of the couple's three daughters after Yates attempted suicide. [25] She met Kingsley O'Keke during her stay in treatment, but the pair broke up after a six-week romance. O'Keke later sold his story to a tabloid newspaper. [26] [27] Death [ edit ]

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In a review for Paula, Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, hailed the documentary as "a glorious celebration of the most witty, flirty woman to ever grace our TVs" and gave the show 4/5 stars. [42] [43] Carol Midgeley, writing for The Times, also gave the documentary 4/5 stars, opining that Yates was a "fizzling force of nature". [44] Gerard Gilbert, writing for the newspaper I, rated the documentary 3/5 stars, adding that he "was left with a tragic sense that Yates’s untimely death robbed us of an intriguing second act". [45] Yates described her childhood as lonely and isolated; her mother, she claimed, was absent for much of her upbringing. [5] She attended a village primary school, Penrhos College, and Ysgol Aberconwy. The Yates family ran the Deganwy Castle Hotel for a time, [6] before moving to a house near Conwy. After the break-up of her parents' marriage in 1975, Yates lived mostly with her mother despite having a closer relationship with her father, and also had periods in Malta and Mallorca where she was a pupil at Bellver International College, before returning to Britain. [ citation needed] Career [ edit ] On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. The official verdict into his death said that he committed suicide by hanging. [21] Yates wrote in her police statement that Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby". During their phone conversations on the morning of his suicide, he had said, "I don't know how I'll live without Tiger". Yates also wrote that Geldof had threatened them repeatedly, saying: "Don't forget, I am above the law." [22] Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the coroner's verdict of suicide and insisting that it was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation. [23] She eventually sought psychiatric treatment. Yates and Hutchence's daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily was born in August 1996. Yates was said to be gloriously happy with her new life, but her relationship with Geldof remained acrimonious and, following her arrest for alleged drug offences two months later, he won temporary custody of their three children. Yates said later that she felt like the victim of a witch hunt: "Bob is still perceived as St Bob, and me as his wayward wife."Michael Hutchence planned to leave Paula Yates before death, Kirk Pengilly says". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018. Had Paula lived, Brewin believes she would have done more serious television. She may well have blown the whistle on the darker goings-on of the time. “She was interested in things like the way women were treated. She would have loved the #MeToo movement, that would have been right up her street.”