Pete Doherty says that he “nearly lost my feet” during his battle with drug addiction

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Pete Doherty has revealed in a new interview that he “nearly lost my feet” while he was battling drug addiction.The Libertines musician has now been clean for over two years, and has spoken about that period, as well as his years battling addiction, in an interview with The Mirror.“I was really pushing the limits,” Doherty recalled about his addiction. “There were a few close calls really.

I nearly lost my feet and horrible things like that.“It was very close, just because of the injecting. That’s what happens when you run out of veins.

It all seems so long ago now, though, but it was a hell of a ride.”Having moved to France with his new wife Katia de Vidas in early 2020, Doherty further credited meeting his latest collaborator Frédéric Lo – who released ‘The Fantasy Life of Poetry & Crime’ with Doherty earlier this month – with helping him kick his addiction.“I hadn’t had a phone or been online for a couple of years,” Doherty said. “Word got to me that this fella wanted me to cover a song by French singer Daniel Darc.

It was called ‘Inutile et hors d’usage’, which means ‘useless and all used up’.“I got really emotional when [Lo] played it to me, it really hit home.