WHEN Paula Yates’s lifeless body was found after a night on heroin, it seemed she had always been doomed to a tragic end. The pain of her INXS rock star lover Michael Hutchence committing suicide and her ex-husband Sir Bob Geldof gaining custody of their three daughters has always been blamed for her downfall.
It was the end of a five-year spiral of self-destruction. Paula and Bob were showbiz royalty and the fallout from her drug-driven love affair with Michael both fascinated and appalled the celebrity world.
But ahead of today’s 20th anniversary of her death at the age of 41, friends reveal to The Sun that the once-wild TV presenter had turned her life around — and her overdose was an accident.
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