Pete told The Guardian’s Saturday magazine: ‘I gave up the main poisons and my health improved. Then you get told alcohol and cheese and sugar are just as bad and you were healthier when you were on heroin.’
His bandmate Carl Barat, 45, said, ‘Gluttony,’ and Pete agreed: ‘Yeah, I am a bit of a glutton. It’s not a joke. I’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And at the moment I’m lacking the discipline to tackle cholesterol.’
When Carl was asked if he was surprised that Pete is still here, he said: ‘Am I surprised Peter’s still alive? No, he’s too smart to die. He never intended to die.”
The Rolling Stones once dumped a drug addled Pete Doherty in a bin when he was backstage at a British music festival.
The Libertines rocker has had a long history of drug problems including heroin addiction, and took things too far in the band's dressing room at the Isle of Wight festival in 2007.Pete tells Britain's Q Magazine that guitarist Keith Richards, who himself used heroin for several years before kicking his habit in the late 1970s, questioned his use of the drug and warned him against injecting it into his veins. And at one point during the festival, the Can't Stand Me Now singer "passed out" in one of The Rolling Stones' dressing rooms and the band then dumped him in a bin as he was a "liability".
"(The Rolling Stones) had different coloured dressing rooms," he explains. "Uncle Ronnie Wood - his was called The Detox Room, all white and he dumped me in there, in the bins, with my legs in the air, on my back, like a dead cow. I heard Ronnie's voice in the midst of my dementia going, 'Have him removed. He's a liability - and he doesn't get the blues.'"Pete says he has now conquered his heroin habit. He explains that he was inspired to get clean after being replaced by another rock veteran, Sting, as the first act to play at the Bataclan Theatre in Paris, France one year after the terrorist atrocity which saw 89 people murdered by gunman at an Eagles of Death Metal gig.
