By Louise Saunders
Published: 11:22, 13 April 2014 | Updated: 11:22, 13 April 2014
Just weeks before her untimely death, Peaches Geldof spoke of the hopes she harboured for her two young children, but revealed she had not fully made peace with her own childhood.
In a tragic final interview the late star, who died on Monday, said it was through being a mum that she had reconciled herself with her memories of her own mother, Paula Yates, who died in 2000 at 41 from an accidental heroin overdose.
Speaking to Aga Living magazine, published in the Sunday Times, Peaches said she felt her TV presenter mother was 'living through me all the time because we are just so similar'.
Tragic: Just weeks before her untimely death, Peaches Geldof spoke of the hopes she harboured for her two young children, but revealed she had not fully made peace with her own childhood
Explaining that being a mother to her two sons - Astala, 23 months, and 11-month-old Phaedra - had allowed her to achieve a new understanding of the world, she said: 'I'm not sure I've yet fully made peace with my childhood, but with my mum I have come to terms with everything.
'There are so many parallels between us. Now I can understand everything. I think you have to experience hardships and pain yourself to fully understand people who have been through it and also you can never really experience happiness unless you've had that down feeling too.'
The 25-year-old mother-of-two was found at her home in Wrotham, Kent. Police have said her death is being treated as a 'non-suspicious, unexplained sudden death'.
Mummy's girl: In a tragic final interview the late star said it was through being a mum that she had reconciled herself with her memories of her own mother, Paula Yates, who died in 2000 at 41 from an accidental heroin overdose
A post-mortem examination proved inconclusive, prompting further investigations to try to establish a cause of death.
Any inquest is not expected to be opened and adjourned by the coroner until after the results of toxicology tests are known, and her body has been released back to her family to arrange her funeral.
Peaches also spoke with the magazine of how being a mother had 'anchored' her in place, changing her life for the better, and that she dreamed of one day welcoming a little girl into the world with her rocker husband, Thomas Cohen.
'Anchored': Peaches, pictured at a fashion event in London last week, spoke of how becoming a mother had changed her life
She added: 'The way I've been raising them is with pure love. I just have a lot of hopes for them, and I hope when they're older they get to have a bit of the youth that I lost out on when I had them. Now I am a mum, I can correct those awful parts of my childhood and it's a really healing process.
'Before, I was not at peace with myself about it because I was just traumatised. That's why I was living a chaotic lifestyle. But now I have the kids I can heal the situation. It's so good in every single way, really.'
Meanwhile, it has been claimed the late socialite's ashes are to be scattered gardens of Davington Priory, Kent, where Peaches spent her childhood and the location of her mother's ashes.
Dreams: The 25-year-old socialite explained she dreamed of one day welcoming a little girl into the world with her rocker husband, Thomas Cohen
A source told the Sunday Mirror newspaper: 'Peaches' happiest memories were there – there would be no other place to hold the funeral and have her ashes scattered. The family were all so happy there – it was just idyllic.'
And Peaches' adored childhood nanny, Anita Debney, is said to be having a key role in both funeral plans and the upbringing of the star's two young sons.
The source added: 'Anita was adored by peaches. She never left her side. The sisters all know how close they were and will know how much Peaches would want Anita to be running the funeral plans.
'I know that she wished for Anita to be fully involved in her two boys' upbringing if anything happened to her. If Anita didn't have those boys she would be without a rudder.'
MailOnline has contacted a representative for the late Peaches Geldof for comment.
Beloved: Peaches' adored childhood nanny, Anita Debney, is said to be having a key role in both funeral plans and the upbringing of the star's two young sons
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