“It was quite heartbreaking really both romantics and there’s just f*** you can do about it really.” “I felt like I was breaking our bond, our pack, everything we had sworn in blood together and although Pete says he got kicked out the band that was never the case, but of course he didn’t see it that way. “But I knew I had to keep the band together and I knew we had these commitments, and Pete was running round with this new crew and I felt like he was getting away from me. “People kept saying to me, your friend is going off the rails, he needs help, ‘You can’t let him do this’ ‘You can’t let him do that’ but you’ve seen the man, he’s a law unto himself,” he explained. He added: “I acted really stupidly and took some videos and stuff.”īarât described how Doherty’s spiralling addiction meant he couldn’t keep up with the band’s schedule and commitments. In the latest documentary, Doherty told Theroux: “They were doing these gigs without me, they did Glastonbury without me and I went round to beg him to say ‘I know you are worried about the drugs but please don’t carry on without me’.”
Pete explained how he broke into bandmate Carl Barât’s flat in a desperate bid to stay in The Libertines, but he wasn’t at home.
