Paula Yates

icanhandthemback

^Taking heroin with her children in the house was a desperately irresponsible thing to do, but I don’t think she meant to kill herself.^

This is the number one killer of drug addicts who have been through rehab. They take the same dose they were taking before they detoxed not realising their body cannot take it. The same thing happened to my brother after his seemingly successful rehab. It is tragic.

I think it happens with all addictions, including alcohol. It trains your brain to need/want that amount

Not sure it was Bob Geldof who adopted Tiger Lily. I know Hutchence's family were very against that but I think that as her closest relative was Paula's daughter Fifi, I think she might have been the one who legally became her guardian as she was over 18.

I loved her on the Big Breakfast. Bright and bubbly. Discovering a creep like Hughie Green was her natural father must have been devastating.
I was in Princess Mary's maternity hospital in Newcastle having my second daughter when Paula was brought in with some pre natal problems. She was in a private room next to our NHS ward. The excitement her arrival caused was astounding.
She ended up having Fifi Trixibel three days later in London.
Sometimes I think tragic people like her should be left to rest in peace.

Taking heroin with her children in the house was a desperately irresponsible thing to do, but I don’t think she meant to kill herself.

This is the number one killer of drug addicts who have been through rehab. They take the same dose they were taking before they detoxed not realising their body cannot take it. The same thing happened to my brother after his seemingly successful rehab. It is tragic.

merlotgran

I remember Paula describing in an interview how, as an ardent groupie, she ‘literally threw herself’ at BG after ambushing him in Paris.

She knew how to get to a man through his ego.

Sad really.

I remember how she pursued Bob Geldof until he gave in. I wasn’t a fan, found her general behaviour a bit tarty and sex obsessed but she could also be entertaining. I remember also that she went through an Earth Mother phase, moving to the country, cooking, gardening, keeping chickens and writing a monthly column in a glossy magazine (Country Living?)
I believe her relationship with Hutchence was her downfall. Before him she was teetotal and never touched drugs. Watching the documentary was haunting and so sad. Taking heroin with her children in the house was a desperately irresponsible thing to do, but I don’t think she meant to kill herself.
Could never stand Geldof, but he did the decent thing with Tiger.

A sad consequence of the child's right to know who their father is/was.

Catterygirl

I think it was Lorraine who said Paula was super intelligent. Could never see it myself. Found her boring and a bit tarty. Sorry fans. After those harsh comments I should add that I am so sorry her life was lost for no good reason. She didn’t deserve to die in such a horrible way. Bob Geldof must be strong to have coped with it all.

Yes, as someone else has said, Bob Geldof took on all the children which was a strong thing to do.
I honestly didn't think Ms Yates was super intelligent either, nor particularly good at what she did. But still so sad what happened, dying on her daughter's birthday and leaving them both. Such an an awful start to their lives.
Then the story was repeated by Peaches.

We watched it and were horrified by the HIGNFY bit. It was just a disgusting way to treat a person and not funny at all.

It wouldn't have mattered if Hughie Green was the nicest person on the planet. That sort of deception is life changing. It changes all you thought you knew. It has robbed you of a relationship with your father which is a basic right and with it, all the memories you might have had. Paula would have been robbed of her sense of self. To have the one person you should have been able to trust, tell such a bare faced lie is bad enough but to when you are a public figure, how distressing must that have been especially when your life has been turned upside down with all the other things going on in your private life.

Whilst I didn't really like Paula Yates' public persona, I felt a lot of empathy for her when I watched the documentary.

Paula not only inherited the loathsome Hughie Green’s looks but also some of his mannerisms.

I don’t think she would have had the strength to reinvent herself and I doubt the media would have given her the chance.

Yes very sad and her daughter Peaches too. I always liked her uniqueness and was drawn to her personality. Was sad watch.

I watched both programmes about Paula and she did seem to have a mixed up life. Her mother was a very odd woman and certainly let Paula down.

The way the press behaved years ago was truly awful. They were outside her house all the time.

pinkquartz I think that you are absolutely right there; I think that children have instincts and abilities that they lose as they grow up.
I also think (know ) that animals have a sixth sense for things like this

Anniebach

Surely serious brain injuries would have involved hospitalisation

Really strange isn’t it.

It was revealed at the autopsy

Hughie Green seemed a revolting creep to me also. I never understood his popularity and I refused to watch his TV shows
Being a child at that time perhaps we could see through his fake personna to the rotten man he really was. As many of us were not fooled (ditto Jimmy Saville )

Surely serious brain injuries would have involved hospitalisation

Michael Hutchence suffered serious brain injuries in 1995.
It is said that he was never the same afterwards.
He kept it secret apart from telling Helena Christenson

news.sky.com/story/amp/inxs-star-michael-hutchence-and-the-secret-he-took-to-his-grave-11838007

She was unique. As has been said by several people, she was fiercely intelligent and unapologetically herself. Given her upbringing, it's easy to see how she developed her flirty personality, but she was so much more than just that. Her story is a real tragedy.
And the 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' thing about Hutchence may well be true. But women throughout the centuries have always loved a bad boy...

Kylie Minogue said that like Byron, Michael Hutchence was mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

I liked Bob Geodoff and who s to know what when on behind closed doors I m sure she wasn’t easy to live with either
Michael Hutchins might have been the love of her life but was he good for her I feel doubtful
There were similarities with Princess Diane and they were both hounded by media which accounted for both their early deaths

I didn't see the programme but from what I've read online it does seem to be 'bigging-up' her celebrity status - I don't believe the Diana story, she wasn't that relevant in comparison to Diana.

I wasn't a fan of her TV appearances but she was a witty and entertaining writer - in the aftermath of Hutchence's death when she had had a few young lovers, she advised against toy boys as they leave you with only an STD and an empty fridge!

Fifi was at my sons' school for a while, she was a couple of years younger, and I met PY and Geldoff a couple of times at school events - they were both quite amiable.

I didn't care for Paula in her heyday, but this documentary showed the real Paula who was actually quite vulnerable, and I found her story very sad

I had a soft spot for Paula, and for Bob. Watching it all unfold was just tragic, and I dont know how to say this, but she was one of those women who it was always going to end badly for. There are others today who remind me of her, particularly in the way they are treated. I think she was always very vulnerable.
I read that book too Fanny, it was hideous, that person wasnt a friend.

I didn't particularly like her but could see that she was vulnerable and needy and almost embarrassing to watch at times. I can imagine her being taken advantage of.

The shock re Hughie Green being her father must have been horrendous.... not just that he wasn't likeable but that it turned her sense of self upside down. Poor Paula.

As said above, I wouldn't think Michael Hutchence was good for her.... or Bob Geldof come to that, but he went up in my opinion when he adopted Tiger Lily.

She was a product of her time, and sadly the press and men in particular did not like intelligent,sassy, beautiful women. The way she was treated on 'Have I got news for you' exemplified that.. I think she was rather wonderful being so determined to try to juggle career and motherhood whilst being so unhappy within her marriage..then finding the strength to continue after finally finding love.. It was a tragedy waitingto happen

I found her a fascinating person to watch. I didn't like her interviewing style but there was just something about her which I found mesmerising. Since her death I have read quite a bit about her. She was a tortured soul. Even as a small child in the 1970s I couldn't stand Hughie Green. He gave me the creeps and I hated Opportunity Knocks. Rest in peace Paula. X