Pete Doherty Sets Things Straight

Pete Doherty

Speaking to MTV News before his encore at a solo show at the Rhythm Factory in London on Thursday, Pete Doherty spoke candidly about drugs and his lack of money.

On reports that he had nearly died of a drugs overdose in Austria recently, he said: "That was absolute rubbish. I was in Austria and, I mean, between me and you, like, it would've been lovely to have enough stuff [to get anywhere near overdose] but there was nothing about. To be honest it was a really clean week and it [the story] was complete rubbish".

On his current tendency to actually turn up to play shows, he said: "Unfortunately, the bailiff's have been knocking quite a lot so I've got to do [shows] like, I've got to go back on in a minute and do the encore for things like this, but that's what I'm doing really, writing and recording on my own but I'm doing some stuff with Babyshambles as well".