“Dolores was a very small, fragile person, but very opinionated,” Kovac told Rolling Stone. “Her belief was that she was an international artist and she wanted to break the rest of the world, and ‘Zombie’ was part of that evolution. She felt the need to expand beyond ‘I love you, you love me’ and write about what was happening in Ireland at the time.”
In the summer of 1994, she married Don Burton, tour manager of Duran Duran.
“The kids were actually completely elemental in my healing process,” she told LIFE.
In the same interview, Dolores revealed that she had been molested for four years starting at age eight by someone she trusted.
“I was only a kid,” the rock star told the outlet.
“It gets hard as well when you have daughters because you get flashbacks when you’re with them and when you are watching them. You wonder, ‘How can anyone get satisfaction in any way, you know?’”
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