Gary
discusses that after losing their daughter, he could not deal with it
head on and therefore decided to throw himself into his work. He took
care of his wife and kept himself busy with his music. He explains
that while his wife, Dawn, grieved and dealt with their daughter’s
death, he, himself was not strong enough to face the loss.
The
47-year old recalls how happy he felt when he held his daughter in
his hands for the first time. Gary and Dawn spent an hour with Poppy
before she was taken away by nurses. The next 24-hours as Gary puts
it, were painful for the parents. The final straw was when he saw his
wife holding Poppy’s lifeless body in her arms and willing her to
wake up. That was when a grief-stricken Gary decided to pick up on
more work in order to distract himself.
However,
it was not just Poppy’s death that devastated the musician. His
father too passed away which left him even more upset. When he got to
Los Angeles, Gary had a nervous breakdown which then caused him to
sleep for the next 22 hours. When the doctor questioned him about
anything significantly painful happening to him in the past five
years, Gary told him about losing his father and daughter.
Gary also added in an interview that the
past caught up to him, and that no one can ever outrun grief.
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