Pete Doherty: Talking
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In this interview Pete Doherty opens up on how he became addicted to drugs in general and heroin in particular. He talks about how drugs eventually destroyed his life and what made him realise that he needs help. And he answers the question: Pete wanted to publish being in treatment and Hope Rehab so he could help other addicts who need rehab. The Independent printed two articles and edited down most of his interview so here is the unedited version.
When I was at school, I think, I was quite naive to drugs and alcohol. I was just really into football and music I moved school a lot because my dad was in the army. So I tried that, and it just made me feel a bit sick really. But then when I finally left home after doing my A Levels, I moved down to London to live with my Nan that was it really.
I was kind of like a greyhound out of the trap really.
So I started working with this guy, first just selling weed for him and then selling trips. And we can music. I listen to sixties music, psychedelic, and I go to these underground clubs, and there will be loads of drugs — weed, trips, speed… and invariably I would end up taking them. But in the back of my mind has always been heroin; long before I came across it, long before I touched it. I called it opium.
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It was a dirty street drug, it was this magic potion. And inevitably I came across someone who could get some half decent stuff and I remember it was quite a big moment for me taking it for the first time. I put it in a spliff and smoked it and went to bed expecting to have all these amazing dreams. I was 22 or 23 the first time I ever smoked it.
In fact, I probably drank alcohol solidly from the moment I left home until I tried heroin. It was all about getting fucked up and having a good time. So alcohol was actually far more important than heroin then. There was no option at that time to become a hero in there. There was no money, you know. I was trying to just get by. That was where we Libertines first started playing gigs. We called our first flat the Albion rooms. I remember as soon as we signed a record deal, I was offered a line of coke, and then I started washing it up.
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You know, smoking crack, and despite all the steps are… getting into it was a very creative time. And Carl tried to carry on with The Libertines.
One thing led to another, and I ended up doing a 6-week jail term. I was angry with Carl when I was inside, but when I was released, he was variegated to meet me. It was amazing, and we ended up doing a gig together that night. We called it the Freedom Gate. And that is the second phase of The Libertines. And I emigrated to America, started using crack and heroin again and met this homeless guy on the streets.
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And I thought he was a brilliant songwriter as he was a crack dealer. So I brought him up on stage at the gig we did, but it was a mess. He was okay in rehearsals. He could sing, but once onstage he just lost it. He was just mumbling, and that was the end of The Libertines again. The thing was, I just loved making music with Carl. But the drugs, they just became the be all and end all of everything; people gave me ultimatums: I would give up anything just to keep the drugs.
They were part of me. But I just thought I was having fun. I never even considered that I was in a day. Looking back now, of course, yeah I can see I was already addicted, physically and mentally. So I thought I was okay. Until now it had always been forced on me. I think this is the first time I said: I mean, yes, I had been desperate before. There were dark times, but I never thought I need rehab or needed to go to Narcotics Anonymous.
I would just pick up my guitar and start writing a song, and that would help. I was literally at that stage to just kill myself. Doing gigs was just a nightmare. All the songs were so dark. We were playing to a whole new generation of kids who were fucked up like we were when we were their age. Never anyone encouraging me to do drugs. But when you have all the people around you i. Refresh and try again.
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But I just thought I was having fun. He hopes the interview can be done then. Barat was born in Basingstoke, and spent his early years alternately with his father, who worked in an armaments factory, and his mother, a hippy who finally settled in a commune in Somerset. No hassle, no trouble. Doherty has gone AWOL but he expects him to appear for the sound check in twenty minutes time. This quality has been present throughout our interviews for this Live piece I met him first in Bristol before he took to the stage for a scintillating Dirty Pretty Things show, during which he managed to consume two bottles of whisky and somehow remain on his feet; then we hooked up at the Live photo shoot; our third meeting has stretched over the course of a long evening and seen us visit numerous drinking establishments.
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