I have a brother who I adore is that I didn’t know I had “. She revealed it Bono Vox62, in a radio interview with Bbc. The U2 frontman said he had discovered the existence of his “secret” brother only in 2000, a year before his father died of cancer. Her mother Iris, died in 1974, “she knew nothing about it”: “My mother did not know that her husband had a son with another woman. None of us knew it, ”the singer clarified. Paul Hewson, this is the real name of Bono Vox, he lived in the house with his father, mother and older brother Norman when his half-brother was born. “My father was obviously going through a very complicated period, his head was partly elsewhere because his heart at that moment was elsewhere”.
In 2000, when he discovered the existence of his stepbrother, the singer discussed it with his father, with whom he has always had a difficult relationship: ‘I asked him if he had loved my mother. He said yes. And when I insisted on asking him to explain why this happened then, he replied “happens””. Bono Vox accepted the answer and concluded: «he was not apologizing, he was just telling the facts. And me now I am at peace with my father, although he had a child with another woman. My father had a deep friendship with this beautiful woman, who is part of the family, and they had a son. But all this has been kept secret ». A secret that Bono discovered in 2000, and which he has only revealed to the world now, after twenty-two years.
The artist, who plans to publish an autobiography by the end of the year, in an interview with the BBC also spoke of the death of his mother, killed by a brain aneurysm when he was just 14 years old. The disappearance of Mrs. Iris had a “huge impact” on the whole family: “It is easy psychology but it is evident that I searched and immediately found another family forming the U2 bandthen I have found my wife Ali. And all of this happened pretty quickly. ” The love between Bono Vox and Ali Hewsonmarried since 1982, in fact broke out as teenagers, among the high school benches.
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Source: Vanity Fair
