Bono has mentioned he has a half-brother he didn’t find out about till the yr 2000.
The U2 frontman opened up about his life and household on the BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, chatting with Lauren Laverne.
Within the episode, broadcast right this moment (26 June), Bono says that he had a “difficult” relationship along with his late father, who conceived a baby in an extramarital affair.
Bono’s father died in 2001. His mom, Iris, died of a mind aneurysm in 1974, when he was 14 years outdated.
“I’ve one other brother, whom I really like and adore, who I didn’t know I had,” he mentioned.
“It’s a really shut household,” the singer continued, “and I might inform my father had a deep friendship with this attractive girl, who’s a part of the household, after which that they had a baby. And this was all saved secret.”
He added that he’s “at peace” after studying of his brother’s existence in 2000. Bono mentioned that earlier than his father’s dying, he confronted him on the topic.
“I requested him, did he love my mom, and he mentioned ‘sure’,” the singer recalled. “And I mentioned, ‘how might this occur?’ and he mentioned, ‘It could’, and that he was attempting to place it proper.
“He wasn’t apologising, he was simply stating, these are the info. And I’m at peace with it.”
Bono additionally has one other brother, Norman.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
