London
(ANI):
Boyzone
star
Stephen
Gately
was
a
real
life
'Peter
Pan",
his
widower
Andrew
Cowles
has
said.
In
an
interview
with
ITV"s
This
Morning,
he
said
that
his
husband
viewed
the
world
through
the
eyes
of
a
child
and
refused
to
grow
up,
reports
The
Mirror.
“Stephen
was
incredibly
childlike,
he
loved
Disney
-
every
year
we
went
to
Disney
[World]
in
Florida.
I
just
think
he
never
really
grew
up,
he
was
like
a
child
and
children
can
maybe
see
more
than
the
rest
of
us
as
well.
They
see
the
world
in
a
different
way
and
Stephen
was
like
that.
He
was
incredibly
shy
and
private
as
well,
but
he
liked
to
show
off
and
be
the
centre
of
attention
-
but
only
in
the
way
that
a
child
does," he
said.
Gately
spent
four
years
penning
his
fantasy
novel,
The
Tree
of
Seasons,
which
Cowles
called
his
'legacy".
The
star
had
difficulty
in
getting
the
novel
published
while
he
was
alive
due
to
his
lack
of
formal
education.
“His
education
hadn"t
been
that
great,
so
he
didn"t
use
any
grammar,
any
punctuation,
any
capitalisation,
so
it
would
be
blocks
of
text
that
was
quite
tricky
to
read
actually.
Every
few
months,
I
would
take
chunks
of
it
and
send
it
to
a
proof
reader
and
we"d
get
back
a
nicely
formatted
version
that
I
could
read!,"
Cowles
added.
“This
is
hard
work,
I"m
quite
private,"
he
said.
“Stephen
always
kept
me
out
of
the
limelight.
I
don"t
want
to
be
a
celebrity,
I
don"t
like
cameras
very
much
and
I"m
coping
day
to
day,
you
know…
I
miss
him
terribly.
The
picture
on
the
back
of
the
book
has
been
great
comfort
to
me
and
I
find
myself
kissing
him
goodnight
sometimes
because
it"s
a
good
size
picture
to
kiss."
“Last
night
I
was
asking
him
for
strength
for
today
because
I
was
fearful
about
coming
on
the
telly
but
I"ve
got
to
do
it
for
him,
because
if
he
was
around
he"d
be
doing
it
himself.
And
this
is
his
legacy
in
a
way,"
he
said.