Musician Pete Doherty has explained how his wife Katia de Vidas was instrumental in him getting clean.
The 46-year-old Libertines and Babyshambles singer-guitarist has spoken openly about his struggle with alcohol and drugs abuse over the years, which has seen him arrested on a number of occasions.
Doherty and de Vidas, who married in 2021, are in the band The Puta Madres, with de Vidas on keyboards and Doherty as the frontman.
Speaking about his sobriety on The Tommy Tiernan Show on Saturday night, the singer said, "The honest answer is my wife really, who gave me the ultimatum, in the end, I just can't be with you, if you do this I can't be with you. You can't, we can't.
"Because we always wanted to have kids, and she was adamant that I couldn't do that around the kids, so. So it was for her really, y'know?"
As he appeared to wipe his eyes, Tiernan asked him: "Are you upset?" Doherty replied, "No I don't feel upset at all, I just think I connected with something true that I don't really say out loud so much. No I did it for her y'know. And I probably didn't really want to.
"This is the ongoing battle and this is the ongoing battle and this is the months of addiction." He added.
The Can't Stand Me Now musician was also previously in a high-profile relationship with supermodel Kate Moss.
Doherty welcomed a daughter Billy May in 2023, and has a son, Astile, from a previous relationship with singer Lisa Moorish and a daughter, Aisling, with model Lindi Hingston.
When asked about his life in Normandy, he said: "Probably about the baby to be honest, its just around her is she safe? or does she need feeding and then we got two quite big dogs that need quite a bit of exercise as well, so balancing all that. "
Referring to his day-to-day music career, he said " I've got used to the formulaic in a band performing, y'know, this thing I do. which I like to think of as melodic incantation and poetry. It's actually, it's a product as well unfortunately,
"That's what I have to do because I've been terribly lax in my business and financial affairs, I mean its just ridiculous, we're living at my parents-in-laws."
Alongside his successful career as co-frontman of The Libertines, Doherty's other musical projects include the indie outfit Babyshambles and The Puta Madres.
The Libertines released their first new album in nine years, titled All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade, last April.
The four-piece - consisting of Doherty, Barat, John Hassall on bass and Gary Powell on drums - have previously released three albums between 2002 to 2015, which include hits Don't Look Back Into The Sun and Can’t Stand Me Now.
