8 Eerie Final Interviews Dead Celebs Gave

4. Peaches Geldof

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Peaches Geldof was born into celebrity. The daughter of famed singer-songwriter Bob Geldoff, Peaches struggled with the same thing as many children who are unwillingly thrust into the public spotlight, though she was more comfortable discussing these issues more than most. In her final interview with The Specator's William Todd Schulz, she treated the talk like a therapy session:

"I grew up in the worst kind of whirlwind where every mistake I made was not only watched by my parents but the whole of the public. It was scary."

She also lamented the loss of her favorite artists -- like musician Elliott Smith and actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman -- due to their obsessions with heroin:

"Heroin is such a bleak drug. It always makes me so sad to hear about people like Hoffman, who were real masters and also family men, who were just wasted by the constant, gnawing obsession with it."

When Peaches was eventually found dead in her home, the inquest ruled the cause a heroin overdose. Her mother, Paula Yates, had died under similar circumstances fourteen years earlier. This, Peaches thought, should not be her own fate:

"Your life, they keep telling you, is pre-ordained: I’m going to die like my mother."

The fact that she actually did is both heartbreaking and disturbingly fortuitous.

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