'So upsetting' - Keith Duffy opens up about Stephen Gately suicide rumours

Irish Daily Mirror

a day ago

Keith Duffy has told how upsetting it was that people thought Stephen Gately killed himself.
The singer opened up about the impact the Sky documentary: Boyzone: No Matter What had on people when it aired at the beginning of this year.
The Boyzlife star, 50, said he was left upset for years when people would say they thought Stephen took his own life.
The father-of-two told us: 'I can't believe the amount of people that watched it, not only in Ireland, but around the world.
'Everywhere I've gone, everybody's saying, people that you wouldn't expect corporate people are saying, I watched your documentary, and I watched it all in one night. People just binge watched three episodes. So it was a good watch. It was well shot. It was very honest.
'And for me personally, it was kind of, I suppose, was like a counselling session, it was kind of therapeutic just to be able to voice how it was for us, you know, young boys growing up in the northside of Dublin and on the outside in, it looked very glamorous, and it looked like we were living the dream. But it was tough. And losing Stephen was horrendous.'
The Dubliner said he didn't think people understood the real truth behind Stephen's death.
The star died at his Spanish holiday home in 2009 from a pulmonary oedema resulting from an undiagnosed heart condition when he was just 33.
Keith said: 'Some people unfortunately thought he took his own life, which for me, was so upsetting, because Stephen was at the happiest part of his life. He was really buzzing.'
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