Hutchence’s daughter Tiger Lily ROCKS OUT in Freo heaven

With her intense gaze and trace of a smile, Tiger Lily Hutchence-Geldof has the unmistakable rock star swagger of her father, the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

The 26-year-old has inherited his musical expertise, too. Last month, she quietly launched her debut album, Tragic Tiger’s Sad Meltdown, a phrase borrowed from a headline about her within the journal New Idea.

And it’s that tongue-in-cheek title that speaks volumes about the place her character comes from. For making a joke in regards to the media’s curiosity in her is, mates say, precisely the type of factor that her late mom, Paula Yates, would have performed.

This week, Paula’s legacy — as a mom, TV presenter, pal and lover — is as soon as once more within the highlight within the wake of the two-part UK documentary, Paula.

It questions how her trailblazing however brief life affected these she liked — and whether or not the poisonous combine of medicine, alcohol and grief which killed her took its toll on them, too.

‘Tragic Tiger’ definitely suffered unduly. Just 16 months outdated when her father killed himself in a Sydney lodge room, she was orphaned three years later when Paula, then 41 and consumed with grief, died following an “incautious” overdose of heroin.

But — having been raised by Bob Geldof, Paula’s ex-husband and the daddy of her three older kids — it appears Tiger Lily is following a a lot calmer and extra healthful path.

Now she lives in Fremantle, the place she has began a profession as a musician.

Born Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, she was at all times generally known as Tiger Lily however at present prefers to make use of the identify Heavenly.

Her life is a paradise of browsing, meditation and yoga — a world away from the gritty London medicine scene that killed each her mom in 2000, and her half-sister Peaches, who additionally died of a heroin overdose aged 25, in 2014.

Tiger Lily was simply 4, and alone in the home together with her mom, when she discovered Paula useless. She raised the alarm when a pal of Paula’s phoned, and he or she instructed her that she “couldn’t wake Mummy.”

The pure sanctuary for the little lady was Geldof’s dwelling. Tiger Lily already knew the Boomtown Rats star and charity campaigner properly, having often stayed with him when Paula was struggling within the years after Hutchence’s dying.

She was additionally near her half-sisters: Fifi, now 39, Peaches, and Pixie, 32. Tiger Lily and Fifi initially shared a mattress, clinging to one another in grief. Geldof grew to become her authorized guardian and formally adopted her in 2007, decided to lift her removed from the showbusiness highlight.