Live Aid hero Bob Geldof stunned an audience into silence, when he opened up about his break-up with Paula Yates.
Geldof, who had three children with TV presenter Yates, spoke out at The Hay Festival.
He said: “My wife left me, I left her, and I was destroyed by the event.”
“I couldn't get beyond the huge immensity of loss - that universal grief. Pain crowded in my head. I couldn't find a way over or beyond it.
“It was too much, the whole thing. I hated women. I didn't trust them. I didn't want to be near them.”
Yates, who left him for Australian rock star Michael Hutchence, died in 2000 from a drugs overdose
Bob met French actress Jeanne Marine fifteen years ago and says that his life has been ‘transformed’.
