Pete Doherty Blames Heart Stoppage For Gig Cancellation
The Babyshambles frontman missed a number of shows with the band in Ireland earlier this year, which at the time was put down to "exhaustion". Now he has claimed that "some kind of poisoning" caused his heart to stop, meaning he was on a life support machine when he should have been on stage.
Speaking to the NME, Doherty said: "If I hadn't been on a life support machine I'd have been in Ireland, but my heart stopped. It was a really strange turn of events. Obviously, [the doctors'] immediate thought was that it was to do with drugs, but it wasn't - it was some kind of poisoning ... I don't remember [what happened]. At the time I thought I was a taxi driver offering to take everyone to Elephant And Castle. I was running into the walls, making steering wheel signs with my hands. And then I just stopped. My body just stopped".
