London, November 17: Irish singer Ronan Keating is finding it difficult to come to terms with the tragic death of his bandmate Stephen Gately.
The Boyzone frontman is so devastated that he is considering to get therapy to combat the anxiety attacks he is suffering from after Gately’s sudden death on October 10, the Observer reported.
“I just feel worn out. I haven’t slept. My brain doesn’t work. My heart’s broken. You just feel crushed.
I’ve had good days and bad days. The bad days are horrible, it’s like the walls are coming in on top of you. Anxiety I think is what they call it,” Keating said. “I haven’t been sleeping at all lately. It’s been horrible. We’ve all been feeling the same way since Stephen passed. Mentally I’m absolutely exhausted.
“There’s times when you feel like you can’t breathe, when you’re panicking and I’m not like that. I’ve always been on a level,” the singer added. Keating had recently said that coping with Gately death had been harder than losing his mother Marie, who died of cancer in 1998.
“I’ve never before thought about going to get help with counsellors. For the first time ever I think I should,” Keating said. Gately died aged 33 from an acute pulmonary oedema, a build-up of fluid in the lungs, at his holiday home in Majorca.
–PTI