Bono has revealed that his cousin is also his half-brother, after his father had an affair with his mother’s sister.
The U2 frontman’s father Bob Hewson apparently told Bono, real name Paul Hewson, the news back in 2000, before dying of cancer in 2001.
Hewson and Bono’s aunt Barbara allegedly had an affair and had a son, Scott Rankin, although Bono’s late mother Iris never found out about it.
Although they grew up thinking they were cousins, Bono says that Rankin had always felt like a brother to him.
"The truth is with Scott, we felt like brothers long before we knew we were. I love Scott and his mother, Barbara,” he told the Irish Times.
“I must have known that something was up, and I must have held my father responsible for kind of making my mother unhappy in the way kids just pick up things.”
The...
The U2 frontman’s father Bob Hewson apparently told Bono, real name Paul Hewson, the news back in 2000, before dying of cancer in 2001.
Hewson and Bono’s aunt Barbara allegedly had an affair and had a son, Scott Rankin, although Bono’s late mother Iris never found out about it.
Although they grew up thinking they were cousins, Bono says that Rankin had always felt like a brother to him.
"The truth is with Scott, we felt like brothers long before we knew we were. I love Scott and his mother, Barbara,” he told the Irish Times.
“I must have known that something was up, and I must have held my father responsible for kind of making my mother unhappy in the way kids just pick up things.”
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- 10/24/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
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