Grieving Ben Goldsmith has confessed he took hallucinogenic drugs and connected with a medium in an strive to connect with his daughter, who was murdered in an accident four years ago.
Iris Annabel Goldsmith, 15, was mounting a quad bike on the family’s holding in Somerset in July 2019 when she took control of the vehicle astray.
The bike lost its balance and reversed, pinning the teenager to the ground. A friend called 999, but she had died when her father arrived.
The death of their daughter ruined Goldsmith and his ex-wife Kate Rothschild, and he has now noted a book called God is an Octopus, sharing his period of grief.
Soon after the crash that clutched his daughter’s life, Goldsmith said: “Dear God, can I have my beautiful, brilliant, kind little girl rear, please God?
“And if not, please take more special care of her. I love her so much and am so projecting of her, and it hurts me so much I can’t report.”
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He told the Sunday Times that he clasps a South American brewed hallucinogenic drug, allowing him to see his daughter one last time.
He said: “My body dragged and shook as tears wiped my face. I felt so blessed to have known this girl for the time I did.
“I yearned to extend out and grab her, to hold her firmly to me now, but there was no way of doing so.”
He also met with a medium that exposed Iris’ final second.
He said the agency told him: “The last thing she recollects is being very winded and then a arise panic.”
Iris Goldsmith was the legatee of two of the country’s most powerful dynasties, the firstborn child of Ben Goldsmith and his ex-wife Rothschild.
She was the agnate of Tory Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith and documentary picture producer Jemima Khan.
The financier Ben Goldsmith has divulged that he took a hallucinogenic drug to see his daughter after her death.
Iris Goldsmith, 15, was murdered in a quad bike calamity on the family farm in Somerset in July 2019.
Mr Goldsmith, 42, who shared Iris with lean heiress Kate Rothschild, has told how he maxim her after proceeds the psychedelic tea Ayahuasca during retirement with eleven other people in Ecuador.
He told The Sunday Times: “I saw Iris, the creation of the girl I had known so well, and the relation between us while she was alive.
“Since the mishap, all thoughts of her had been dirty with shock, anger, sadness, fear, and grief. I saw my Iris again as she had been for the first time since losing her.”
He added: “I saw our little unstated jokes, a momentary look swap across the table, a particular utter I knew so well that spread giggle; I saw a plucky little ginger-haired girl buttoned up in her school uniform, emit us a little sideways beam as we waved her off for her first day at big school; her capability to wind me up and my often obstructive reaction; our shared awe in the existence of Nature’s magic.”
He said his “body heaved and trembled as tears wiped my face”.
“I yearned to extend out and grab her, to hold her firmly to me now, but there was no method of doing so,” he said.
Iris had been zig-zagging across an uneven field when the six-seater Polaris Ranger cancelled. She landed on her scruff on the family’s Cannwood Farm in North Brewham, Somerset.
The Polaris was raised from her, but she was insensible and had stopped breathing. She was marked dead after efforts to revive her for 45 minutes.
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Mr Goldsmith is the son of tardy billionaire tycoon Sir James Goldsmith, the younger brother of Environment Minister Lord Zac Goldsmith, and television maker Jemima Goldsmith.
He has two sons, Frankie and Isaac, with the lean heiress Kate Rothschild. The couple split in 2012 after he established texts on her phone from the American rhymer Jay Electronica and she admitted to an affair.
He is now wed to Jemima Jones, a cater. They have three children, Eliza, Arlo and Vita.
Ayahuasca is a hallucinogenic swallow made from a tropical herb found in the Amazon. It is illegal in many states because it contains the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, a Class A drug.
Psychological results include intense visual hallucinations, depersonalisation, auditory distortions and a change in the sense of time and body image.
