'Heart was elsewhere' U2's Bono on discovering secret brother resulting from dad's affair

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Glastonbury last week, revealed that he had only discovered his additional family member as an adult. It wasn't until after his mother's death that he learnt his father had hidden an affair - but the 62-year-old rocker wasted no time in getting to know the half-brother who had been born as a result.Bono already has an older brother, Norman, whom he believed was his only sibling, until he reached his forties.However, he then made the bombshell discovery that his father Bob had been having an extra-marital affair and that his heart had been "elsewhere" due to his secret other family."I do have another brother whom I love and adore that I didn't know I had, or maybe I did," he mused."My father was obviously going through a lot but partly his head was elsewhere because his heart was elsewhere."He elaborated that no-one else in his family had known about the love-child, including mother Iris, who tragically died when he was just 14.Speaking of his half-brother's mum, who he has now welcomed into the family, he added: "I could tell that my father had a deep friendship with this gorgeous woman."Then they had a child and this was all kept a secret."Originally, Bono had felt incredulous about his father's affair."I asked him, did he love my mother?

And he said 'yes', and [so] I asked him, how could this happen? And he said, 'It can'," he continued in an interview on BBC's Desert Island Discs.His father then assured him that he was "trying to put it right, trying to do the right thing".Bono continued that his father had never apologised for the affair, but simply stated the facts.The U2 frontman has since become "at peace" with what happened, which has included relieving himself of the guilt he felt at not being more supportive.