Pete Doherty says he would tie his young self up and ‘give him some tough love’
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The Libertines singer Pete Doherty has said he would tie his younger self up and “take him to a forest” to “give him some tough love”. Doherty, 45, also said he would tell his younger self to “get some sleep”, saying that when he was lacking sleep “stupid” and “criminal” things would happen.
The singer was speaking about getting clean from his drug addiction and his rise to fame on Kirsty Young’s Young Again podcast on BBC Radio 4. Doherty said: “In my mind, I can imagine myself looking at myself saying this, ‘just get some sleep, just get some sleep from time to time, just get your head down’.
“Get some sleep, because that was always where things would go seriously wrong, two or three days up and then stupid things, like criminal things, where you don’t really don’t know what you’re doing. “I had a slight problem of hallucinations when I was a child, I had a head injury, and I got taken hospital with this head injury.
“I was hallucinating this ball of string was kept coming after me, and it would keep coming back, and another one where all these numbers would come into my face like I could taste it. “They thought it might be epilepsy, but it’s not, and after a few days without sleep, I get that same thing, the digits, and just keep pushing it and pushing it further and further.
“So that’s one thing, sleep. “Maybe I’d actually just get myself, tie myself up, put him in a boot, take him out to a forest and give him some tough love. “Actually, in fact, I wouldn’t even offer any advice, I’d just say, this is for your own good.”.
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