“I pray I can sit and watch this one day with you,” Pete Doherty tells Katia De Vidas, a lighter flickering in his hand as he uses hard drugs, unaware that the camera is still rolling. He’s asked her to stop filming, but secretly, she defies him.
The singer-songwriter is on the cusp of what should be a triumphant 2010 reunion show with The Libertines headlining Reading and Leeds. Instead, an introspective, gloomy Doherty can only focus on his intense feelings of regret. He admits that he hopes De Vidas doesn’t end up watching this film the day after his funeral. “I want to make it through to the other side,” he insists. “I’m going about it the wrong way.”
