If you stand your ground they back down." "A lot of those guys are just scared little boys inside. Between them they managed to fend off the attention.
Instead, they moved Doherty to another wing where he found an ally in his cellmate who "didn't like bullies, basically". I threw my telly at him because I thought that would get me put in isolation." One guy said he was going to stick a fork up my arse. "I didn't have any money, I didn't have any drugs. People I didn't know." As soon as he arrived, he says, people started getting at him, requesting money and drugs for protection. In Wayland last year it was lads from east rather than north London, and loads of other places.
A lot of people wanted to get me, but more wanted to do me a favour. "I got on OK in Pentonville because it was kind of my local, if you like. That was when I was up in front of a judge every five minutes and he was saying, 'get clean or go to jail'". "Jesus Christ, thank God them days are over. Gone is the implant which he had in his stomach to block the effects of heroin. I wouldn't let her touch anything, I just wouldn't." Doherty tells me he is being treated at a walk-in clinic for users and is currently on a pharmaceutical opiate called Subutex ("Posh and Becks, as they call it"), which "doesn't get you high" but suppresses withdrawal symptoms. When you're banging up all day you can't really have someone else in your life, especially if she's an English rose. "The only way I see myself in a serious relationship is if I am toning it down a bit. "I've stopped injecting," he says, giving credit for this improvement to a new girlfriend, whose name he decides not to disclose, but whose parents he is meeting at their Oxford home this evening. In 2010 The Libertines reformed for appearances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals – but, as the release of Roger Sargent's film about the band's revival, The Libertines: There Are No Innocent Bystanders, released next month, reveals, with Doherty the appeal of the story is usually greater than the sound.ĭoherty has been in prison three times, had at least 15 court appearances, a conviction for burglary, more than 26 drugs charges and is currently on bail for cocaine possession. Doherty went on to front Babyshambles, with whom he released two albums, and also produced a solo record called Grace/Wastelands in 2009, but his celebrity reputation has always rather eclipsed his music. In 2003 the singer was ejected from The Libertines, at the height of their success, by his one-time best friend Carl Barât, thanks to his increasing dependence on Class-A drugs. The show is a chance for Doherty to revitalise his image in the wake of his many falls from grace. He declines, the mood having dropped, and for a moment the connection between his art and his well-documented self-harming hangs in the air. I joke that I've got some paper in case he wants to make a drawing. He bleeds only slightly, but it's a sign that we need to talk about something else. He has cut it on the broken crack-pipe in his pocket. He laughs and then lets out a scream before putting his finger in his mouth. I'd only talk to a highly skilled doctor with large amounts of morphine and a hypnotherapist. I do have regrets about Kate, but I wouldn't want to talk to you about them. So, you can't suddenly turn around and say, 'you've got to stop all that'. The thing is, she knew from day one when we began our relationship that I was using very heavily. He is silent for a long time: "I suppose I must have, but I was a bit unhinged at that time," he shrugs. I ask Doherty if he has any regrets about the demise of their relationship. Prosecutors decided not to charge the supermodel, in the absence of forensic or direct eyewitness evidence, but Moss lost contracts with H&M, Burberry and Chanel before admitting herself to rehab. Moss publicly split from Doherty after footage of her allegedly taking cocaine at a studio where he was recording with Babyshambles was sold to the press. The singer's penchant for heroin and crack-cocaine led to the end of their relationship and the model's association with him dented her reputation and helped to earn her the epithet "Cocaine Kate". Despite Moss having married her long-term boyfriend, Jamie Hince, last July, her name is rarely printed without mention of her tempestuous relationship with Doherty.
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