Accustomed for at least a decade to scandals of all kinds and the front pages of the tabloids, Pete Doherty today seems tidy.
Since living in Normandy with his wife and son, the musician has given up drugs and lives an existence, if not monastic, far from temptations.
This is what the documentary produced by his wife Katia de Vidas and broadcast this February 19 on Canal reveals, looking back on the Englishman's junkie past, but also his fight against addiction.
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Pete Doherty never really hid it: he was addicted to hard drugs, especially heroin, for a long time.
At the height of his fame, in the 2000s, then leader of the Libertines and companion of model Kate Moss, he sometimes shot himself several times a day, in full view of those close to him.
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, the director explains the concept of the film: “If you show the best, you have to show the worst”.
In particular, we discover a sequence, which dates from ten years ago, where Pete Doherty is filmed in “flagrant crime”: “I have been shooting up for 7 or 8 years and, like all junkies, over time, you lose your veins , they are destroyed, and that day, I found one,” he begins, before specifying: “It was like a successful military operation.
It’s so sad and tragic, but it was a celebration after two weeks of searching.”
But because duality appears to be the very source of Pete Doherty's unhappiness, the documentary takes care to show another side of him, and ends with a detoxification treatment in Thailand: "In Paris and London, we find too many drugs by snapping your fingers.
There, I only escaped for one night to Bangkok.
The rest of the time, they were tough and looked after me, they knew that I could promote their center,” he told the French daily.
The one who will release a new album on March 29 with the Libertines,
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, therefore seems to have learned from these excesses, notably with the help of Katia de Vidas.
The couple, married for two years, now live not far from Étretat and spend happy days there, far from all temptations.
Has he definitively swapped the heroine for another type of superhero: his wife?