Danny O'Donoghue

I'm quite introvert.

I know it sounds mad now, but it's 20 years of being in the limelight, you kind of become used to it.

totally and I think in order for us sometimes you know you have to get up and do that 7 o'clock in the morning thing and then you go through the promo schedule all at night and I'm not complaining about it but it's it is tough work it's not as tough as getting up to lay bricks in the morning but it's still many hours away from the people you love doing things that you don't want to do and that's a mental kind of torture on you

So then, you know, having a joint or having a beer at the end of the night is just a great way to relax.

It was a great way to relax until you've been doing it for 365 days of the year.

The story was already harrowing, you know, what we'd both had to go through to get to where we were.

and to be just about sitting on top of the mountain.

We were both doing really well.

He had three kids, his wife, beautiful family.

We're in a great place personally and emotionally.

Everybody was in a great place.

And just for that to just be whipped away and then we're all just left here going, what is that?

What was that?

And I have to do it publicly.

When my dad passed away, I found it quite difficult to deal with it.

I think I ran away from it when my father passed away.

I actually didn't want to hear people talking about him.

and I didn't because I wanted I kind of very private in that way I wanted to grieve on my own in my own space if because my like the girls in the family would all like they have key rings and they've got things books and saying prayers and go see the grave and stuff and I just it's not it's not me or it wasn't me

And I just was like, maybe I need to deal with this in a different way.

So I think I was, I threw myself into work.