‘I got on my knees and prayed’ – Bono

U2 front man Bono has opened up about how, kneeling in prayer, he sought his father’s forgiveness for the way he treated him after Bono’s mother’s death.

The Irish singer said in an interview with Desert Island discs that his prayer allowed him to dispel the guilt that had plagued him for years.

“I apologised to my father in a little chapel in France after he passed away,” Bono said. “I went up to this little chapel, there was nobody there and lit a candle.

“I got on my knees, and I just said ‘Look I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you. You went through a lot, please forgive me’, and I felt free.”

The 62-year-old believes he could have been more supportive to his father, Bob, after the death of his mother, Iris, from a brain aneurysm suffered at her own father’s funeral in 1974, when the singer was 14.