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VIDEO. Peter Doherty opens up about his childhood and past addiction issues
In the documentary broadcast this evening on Canal+ Docs, “Stranger in my own skin”, and directed by his wife Katia de Vidas, Peter Doherty talks about his journey and shares the more intimate side of his career. For Brut, he returned to his childhood and his old addictions. – (Raw.)
In the documentary broadcast this evening on Canal+ Docs, “Stranger in my own skin”, and directed by his wife Katia de Vidas, Peter Doherty talks about his career in complete privacy. For Brut, he looks back on his childhood and his old addictions.
“I never thought I would get clean to be honest. The heroine was part of the gang. She was always there” explains rock singer and songwriter Pete Doherty. He adds : “I didn’t realize at the time that I could really close the door on him.” For five years, the British artist who lives in France has not taken heroin. However, he recalls that the threat still remains present: “We stop taking drugs. But there is always this fight, There is this battle. We don’t really stop. We don’t come out like that. (…) The addiction is still there. She’s waiting in the corner.”
“My father was not interested in my music at all. He saw me as a junkie, a shame”
Peter Doherty also confides in the painful relationship his father had with him: “My father was not interested in my music at all. He saw me as a junkie, a shame… The subject of fathers is always quite difficult… because when I was a child, my father never read the tabloids… He talked about it because he was in the army and all the soldiers were reading the tabloids: “Ah, these newspapers are not real news.” And suddenly, when I was in the tabloids, he started to believe it, like a word of the Gospel or something like that, so it was very hard”. In the documentary “Stranger in my own skin”, broadcast on February 19 on Canal+ Docs, his wife Katia de Vidas reveals the intimacy of the singer and composer, Peter Doherty. The latter speaks openly about his fight against his demons.
