Pete Doherty cut a suave figure as he stepped out with his wife Katia de Vidas at the premiere for his new documentary at Zurich Film Festival on Friday.
The former Libertines star, 44, used to be known for his wild lifestyle and the new documentary, titled Stranger In My Own Skin, will take a look back at his rocker days.
Pete celebrated the release of the programme, slated for cinema release on November 9, as he attended the Zurich premiere with his filmmaker wife Katia.
For the occasion, the musician cut a dapper figure in a black suit and a white T-shirt, which he styled with black loafers and a patterned scarf.
He tucked his silver locks beneath a wide-brimmed grey hat and carried a wooden walking cane in one hand.
Dapper: Pete Doherty cut a suave figure as he stepped out at the premiere for his new documentary, Stranger In My Own Skin, at Zurich Film Festival on Friday
Cosy: Pete celebrated the release of the programme, slated for cinema release on November 9, as he attended the Zurich premiere with his filmmaker wife Katia de Vidas
Pete looked as loved-up as ever with his wife Katia, who he welcomed a daughter Billie-May, four months, with in May.
Katia, who directed Stranger In My Own Skin, cut a stylish figure in a black shirt and suit trousers, which she teamed with beige pointed heels.
Pete was seen posing for selfies with fans as he and Katia celebrated the premiere of the new documentary at the 19th Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso.
The singer was once the bad boy of British rock music who became notorious for his party lifestyle, police run-ins, heroin use and dating Kate Moss and Amy Winehouse.
But Pete, who is still performing with The Libertines, said he ‘feels a different person’ after beating his drug addiction and settling down to a new life in France, putting his hellraising days behind him.
He has now been clean from drugs for three years and lives in the seaside town of Étretat with his wife Katia, whom he married in 2021.
But his controversial lifestyle has been back in the headlines after a Channel 4 documentary, Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son?, aired last week – just one month before the release of Stranger In My Own Skin.
Suave: The singer cut a dapper figure in a black suit and a white T-shirt, which he styled with a patterned scarf
Smoking: He completed his look with a grey hat and was seen smoking a cigarette as he arrived at the premiere
All smiles: Pete was seen posing for selfies with fans as he celebrated the premiere of the new documentary at the 19th Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso
Looking back: The former Libertines star, 44, used to be known for his wild lifestyle and the new documentary, titled Stranger In My Own Skin will take a look back at his rocker days
It examined how he was at a drug-fuelled party in London in 2006 when Cambridge graduate Mark Blanco, 30, was allegedly thrown off a first-floor balcony to his death.
In a new interview with ES Magazine, Pete was reported to have not watched the documentary. He said he has ‘no new information’ to add to the case – but did speak of his compassion for Mr Blanco’s mother Sheila, who criticised him in the show.
READ MORE Moment Pete Doherty runs away from London flat where Cambridge graduate was ‘thrown off a first-floor balcony’
He told ES Magazine: ‘There is no new information to have. The further away we get from that moment, whatever happened to Mark, the less likely we are to find out.
‘You have to just think, she [Sheila Blanco] has lost her son. Her feelings are valid so if her taking it out on me makes her feel better, let her do it.’
However De Vidas – who has been with Doherty for 12 years – was left angered by the documentary’s title and is now seeking legal advice over defamation.
She told the magazine: ‘The lawyer said to me, ‘There is a question mark [in the title]’. With a question mark, it’s not an accusation. Come on! Peter doesn’t know more! End of the story.’
Neither Doherty nor De Vidas had watched the documentary at the time of the interview, which was published today.
The TV programme, which aired on October 25, featured footage of Doherty running down the road in Whitechapel after Mr Blanco fell from the property.
CCTV footage showed Doherty – with then-girlfriend Kate Russell-Pavier and his ‘minder’ Jonathan Jeannevol, known locally as ‘Johnny Headlock’ – walking past the body and then running away from the scene.
During the documentary, the CCTV video was watched by Ms Blanco, who said: ‘This is one piece of crucial evidence. I choose not to watch it too often, because this is the last time Mark was alive.
Tragic: Elsewhere, a Channel 4 documentary, Pete Doherty, Who Killed My Son?, aired last week. It examined how he was at a drug-fuelled party in London in 2006 when Cambridge graduate Mark Blanco, 30, was allegedly thrown off a first-floor balcony to his death
‘It shows Mark being projectiled out over the railing and then straight down to the bricks and pavement below.
Read the full interview with Pete Doherty in this week’s ES Magazine, out today
‘A couple of minutes later we see Pete Doherty come down, stepping over Mark without stopping. And then he seems to pick up something from the ground and run away, followed by Headlock. It is absolutely callous, reprehensible lack of humanity.’
Ms Blanco, who lives in Guildford, Surrey, also accused the Metropolitan Police of bungling the investigation into her son’s death.
The Met later responded by saying they ‘conducted an investigation of all the evidence available following his death’, but the probe ‘remains ongoing and any new evidence or information will be assessed by detectives’.
A short statement by Doherty was released at the end of the documentary, which read: ‘I am sorry for Mrs Blanco’s loss and I welcome any assistance people can give her to come to terms with what happened.’
It came after Doherty was photographed last month on September 13 with his daughter Billie-May and wife De Vidas at a pub in London’s Belgravia.
Family: Pete Doherty is pictured with his wife Katia de Vidas who posed while breastfeeding their daughter Billie-May at an exhibition in Dusseldorf on August 17
Throwback: Libertines rock star Pete Doherty is pictured on stage while performing in Paris in 2017
Rock star: Pete was Kate Moss’s on-off boyfriend in the 2000s. They are seen at Glastonbury in 2007
Meanwhile, Doherty also spoke to ES Magazine about how his life had changed since he was performing with The Libertines and Babyshambles.
READ MORE From party death ‘murder’ of Cambridge grad, to escaping the spotlight for married life in France: How one time rock and roll hellraiser Pete Doherty, who once dated Kate Moss, turned his back on life of drugs and excess
He said: ‘When I’m back in England doing shows, I’m a very different person to who I was.
‘Before, I’d do the shows — mostly — but it seemed to always centre around finding and then using drugs, and the show was secondary. Everything’s just a lot less stressful now.’
Doherty also said he had been seeing a liver doctor who has urged him to change his diet because he is eating too much cheese and milk.
However, he added: ‘But the cheese is so good, that’s part of the reason I stay here … It’s a cholesterol and diabetes thing now, but there are tablets, it makes a big difference.’
The article also revealed how Doherty moved to France during the pandemic, takes the dogs for a walk in the countryside and and now ‘takes a dip every day – either in the ice bath that sits in the garden of his house or the sea, which is apparently not much different’.
Doherty also addressed the recent scandal surrounding Russell Brand who has faced serious accusations – which he strenuously denies – such as rape and sexual assault from a series of women.
Doherty said he met Brand once on a TV show, and the comedian asked him for advice on becoming clean. He added: ‘I found him quite funny as a stand-up comedian. But he never tried to rape me.’
Doherty and The Libertines have recently finished their fourth record – All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade – which is their second since reuniting in 2014 and will be out later this year.
Read the full interview with Pete Doherty in this week’s ES Magazine, out today
