Pete Doherty. what is her new life like in normandy away from exaggeration?

Accustomed to all manner of scandals and front pages of the tabloids for at least a decade, Pete Doherty seems tidy today. Since living in Normandy with his wife and son, the musician has given up drugs and lives away from temptation, if not as a monk. That’s what a documentary produced by his wife Katia de Vidas, which aired this February 19 on Canal, reveals, looking back at the Englishman’s drug-addicted past, but also his struggle with addiction.

Heroine

Pete Doherty never really hid it. he had a long history of addiction to hard drugs, especially heroin. At the height of his fame in the 2000s, then the leader of the Libertines and the companion of model Kate Moss, he sometimes shot himself several times a day in front of those close to him. Asked 20 minutes The director explains the concept of the film. “If you show the best, you have to show the worst.” In particular, we find a sequence dating back ten years, in which Pete Doherty stars in an “outrageous crime”; , they are destroyed, and that day I found one,” he begins, before clarifying, “It was like a successful military operation. It’s so sad and tragic, but it was a celebration after two weeks of searching.”

But since duality is the very source of Pete Doherty’s unhappiness, the documentary tries to show another side of him and ends with detoxification treatment in Thailand; There I escaped to Bangkok for just one night. The rest of the time they were tough and looked at me, they knew that I could advance their center,” he told the French daily. He, who will release a new album with the Libertines on March 29, All is quiet on the eastern esplanade, therefore, seems to have really learned from these excesses, especially with the help of Katya de Vidas. The couple, married for two years, now lives not far from Etretat and spends happy days there, away from all temptations. Has he switched heroine for good with another kind of superhero: his wife?