Bono Vox on family tragedy: We avoided the pain we knew we would feel

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The Irish musician Bono Vox, whose real name is Paul David Hewson, spoke for the first time about his mother's death. In his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, he revealed that he and his older brother RќRѕSЂRјR ° neous PS have very few memories of their mother Iris and that they tried to avoid the pain they felt because of the loss. She died in September 1974. Just days after she suffered a stroke at her father's funeral.

“I'm afraid it was worse than that and we rarely remembered her. "We were three Irish people and we were avoiding the pain we knew we would feel if we talked and thought about it," admitted Bono, who was only 14 when he lost his mother.

 

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He also described the incident at his grandfather's funeral when he saw his father carrying Iris in his arms through the crowd.

"He rushed to take her to the hospital. "She collapsed by the grave as her father was being lowered into the ground," he recalled.

Three days later, he and his brother went to the hospital to say goodbye to her. Since then, their life has been marked by melancholy, mystery and melodrama.

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By the way, in mid-June, Bono revealed that he has a half-brother, whom he didn't know existed for decades. He found out about him in 2000. He told the host of the show "Desert Island Discs" that his mother Iris did not know that her husband had a child with another woman.

"It's a very close family and I realized that my father had a deep friendship with this beautiful woman... And then they had a child. And it was all kept secret," Bono told BBC Radio 4.

After learning, Bono spoke to his father Bob before his death in 2001. "I asked him if he loved my mother and he said yes," Bono recalled.

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