Doherty: 'Kate Moss saved my life'
Troubled rock star Pete Doherty has said his girlfriend, Kate Moss, saved his life.
The Baby Shambles frontman is determined to shake off his heroin habit and volunteered to have a naltrexone implant to stem the cravings, apparently at Moss’s behest.
Naltrexone is a drug that blocks the effects of morphine and heroin and is also used in the treatment of alcoholism.
“It was get an implant or die, really, the way things were,” he told the US edition of Vanity Fair.
“I was fixing up, shooting white, shooting brown and then entering a relationship – I mean, God knows, Kate saved my life.”
Doherty and Moss each have a child by different partners and he said the youngsters had also played a large part in motivating him to take responsibility for his actions.
“Drugs are a very selfish thing,” he added.
“It goes against a lot of the central tenets of the things I have always claimed to believe in.”
The singer, who is reportedly due to marry Moss this summer, said that after a spell in prison and a punch up live on stage he felt life was finally settling down. He is pleased with his band’s forthcoming debut album, which features Moss on backing vocals.
“One minute I’m in a prison tracksuit queuing for chicken and rice, the next I’m clobbered out in Dior,” he said.
