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Sir Bob Geldof's Daughter Peaches Has A Drug Overdose

July 22, 2008 8:19 p.m. EST

Jennifer Tormo - Celebrity News Service

London, England (CNS) - Peaches Geldof, part-time TV presenter and daughter of Sir Bob Geldof, had a suspected drug overdose on Sunday afternoon.

Geldof, 19, stopped breathing for several minutes and was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation by a friend.

"Peaches could not breathe for several minutes after suffering a respiratory arrest. Her friend had to give chest pumps and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," a source told The Sun. "If she had not received this she could have died or she could have suffered brain damage. Peaches had gone into respiratory arrest, in which a patient's breathing stops but the heart doesn't."

"It was extremely serious and there is no doubt her friend saved her life," the source added.

Peaches' mother, Paula Yates, died of a drug overdose back in 2000. Peaches was reportedly terrified of her father finding out about her own overdose.

"No one could believe this has happened to Sir Bob Geldof's daughter, particularly considering what happened to her mother," said another source. "When she came to she started mouthing off and told the ambulance crew, 'You have to respect my privacy'. She then told them to get out. And she refused to go to hospital to have further treatment because she was worried about it getting out."

Though Peaches and Sir Bob did not comment, London Ambulance confirmed they were at the scene.

"We were called shortly before 4:45pm yesterday (Sunday) to an address in London N1, to reports of a female patient taken ill. We sent an ambulance, a bicycle responder and a fast response car to the scene. Following assessment, the patient did not need hospital treatment," they said in a statement.

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