Singer Bono of U2 fame has revealed he lived on leftovers and chocolate after his mother died when he was just 14.

Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, was speaking on Ruthie’s Table 4 podcast when he made the revelation yesterday.

The Irish born singer, 65, was appearing on the podcast hosted by Ruthie Rogers, the chef and co-owner of The River Cafe in London, who discusses the role of food in the lives of her guests, their favourite meals, comfort foods and cooking habits.

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Bono’s mother Iris died in hospital in 1974, three days after suffering a brain aneurysm at her father’s funeral. She was just 44.

He has previously spoken about the loss of his mother and the effect it had on Bono, his older brother Norman and his father Brendan, who died in 2001.

Now he has revealed Norman would bring home surplus airline food after Iris’ death to give to Bono.

“The house was two miles away from the runway where my brother Norman worked for Aer Lingus,” he said.

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“He had talked them into allowing him to bring home the surplus food from the airline.

“This was highly exotic fare. Gammon steak and pineapple, an Italian dish called lasagne, that we’d never heard of, or one where rice was no longer a milk pudding but a savoury experience with peas.”

He said the airline food made a change from what he usually prepared himself; a tin of meat, a tin of beans and instant mashed potato.

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“Thinking back to being a teenager, food was just fuel,” he said.

“I would spend my food money on things far more important like Alice Cooper’s Hello Hooray.”

The singer told Rogers he had few memories of his mother “cooking or otherwise”.

“After my mother died, we just didn’t speak her name. So it’s hard when you do that to recall these things,” he said.

“We certainly had kitchen table dramas, three men arguing a lot because the woman of the house was gone. And I remember my relationship with food changed.”

Two years after his mother died, Bono became one of the founding members of U2 after the band’s drummer, Larry Mullins Jnr, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians.

He told Rogers it was only after they started booking gigs that he and his bandmates started using the money they saved by driving home instead of staying in hotel rooms to eat in nice restaurants.

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