Get the latest celebrity gossip and telly news sent straight to your inbox. Sign up to our weekly Showbiz newsletter here. “Years later, when I wasn’t a committed Christian and didn’t feel the presence of Jesus in my heart very often, I still remembered a time when I did, and I’d feel genuinely safe in that knowledge.“Evangelical is the wrong word, but that’s the closest word I can think of to describe feeling the presence of God or presence of the spirit.
They used to put me right at the back of the choir though, because I was so horribly out of tune.”Doherty also said that he believed he’d follow in the footsteps of his dad, also called Peter, and be a soldier.
He said: “I always thought I’d join the Army and go to war somewhere. That’s what I thought was in store for me.“I’d become a soldier and die in a foreign land.
It seemed somehow heroic. It was the flag and the idea of being English that was ever present for all us Army brats. I suppose it was just this longing to be English, to be in England, this longing for an identity.”.
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