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Rock singer Bono has revealed how he knelt in prayer in a candlelit French chapel seeking forgiveness from his late father for the way he treated him after his mother’s death.
In a candid interview on today’s Desert Island Discs, the U2 frontman says he finally felt ‘free’ after the gesture which allowed him to dispel the guilt that had plagued him for years.
‘I apologised to my father in a little chapel in France after he passed away,’ he says. ‘I went up to this little chapel, there was nobody there and lit a candle.
‘I got on my knees, and I just said “Look I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you. You went through a lot, please forgive me”, and I felt free.’
Rock singer Bono (pictured) has revealed how he knelt in prayer in a candlelit French chapel seeking forgiveness from his late father for the way he treated him after his mother’s death
The 62-year-old believes he could have been more supportive to his father, Bob, after the death of his mother, Iris, from a brain aneurysm suffered at her own father’s funeral in
