Peter Doherty is reportedly about to become a father for the third time.
The Babyshambles star, 43, is said to have announced that he and wife Katia de Vidas are expected live on stage at a performance in Strasbourg on Monday night.
He has been in a relationship with Katia since 2012.
Peter Doherty ‘is having a baby!’: Babyshambles singer (second right) is said to have revealed wife Katia de Vidas’s (far right) pregnancy on stage in Strasbourg on Monday night
His love: Katia played keyboards on stage at the gig – she married Peter last September and they have been together since 2012
Multiple sources confirmed the news to Web on Tuesday, but there was no mention of the news on either him or Katia’s social media.
A source said: “They happily chatted up the news after the show with fans waiting behind them to talk to them.”
Pete married Katia, who performs in his band, in a private ceremony at a lavish French retreat in September 2021 – just two days after confirming their engagement.
Doing well: Pete has been heroin-free for three and a half years and has settled in France with his Puta Madres bandmate Katia after giving up his bad-boy lifestyle
The couple married at the Hotel Domaine Saint Clair in the French town of Etretat – their home for the past three years – while The Libertines and the couple’s band Puta Madres provided the music.
Pete has been heroin-free for three and a half years and has settled in France with his Puta Madres bandmate Katia after giving up his bad-boy lifestyle.
He rose to fame in the mid-2000s as the frontman for indie band The Libertines, but found national attention when he began dating supermodel Kate Moss.
The couple met at their 31st birthday party in January 2005, and he shortly afterwards declared that he had “really found love”.
Their tumultuous romance ended briefly when Pete was unable to complete rehab in Arizona, USA. Kate said at the time she had “various personal issues that I need to address”.
Love: The couple married at the Hotel Domaine Saint Clair in the French town of Etretat – their home for the past three years – while The Libertines and the couple’s band, Puta Madres, provided the music
He even drew a portrait of himself and Kate using crayons and his own blood in 2005.
Pete also famously scrawled “I love Kate 4 eva” on his Jaguar’s windshield after leaving court following a drug offense.
He and Kate eventually got back together and attended rehab together, but they were seen in many public ranks before breaking up for good in July 2007 following their engagement.
Pete then dubbed her a “bad old rag” in an interview with Metro after they finally split in 2007, which happened months after he proposed.
Pete has a son, Astil, 19, from his relationship with Lisa Moorish, and it was reported in 2009 that the singer was once banned from seeing his son because of his drug addiction.
But after he went to rehab and got clean, he became a much more active dad.
Lisa told Metro in 2009, “Peter struggles at times with his recovery so it was a really difficult decision.
“But when he came out of rehab last year and started putting his life in order, I thought the time was right. I want Astile to have a father.”
Pete also has a daughter, Aisling, with model Lindi Hingston, who shared the news of her daughter’s arrival a year after her birth.
A week after Linda shared the news, Pete said: “The little girl was two months premature. I said I’d try to be there for the birth… Yes, she’s mine.”
While his most famous relationship was with Kate, Pete also had an affair with the late singer Amy Winehouse before her death in 2011.
Speaking to The Mail On Sunday in 2012, he said: “Amy and I were lovers. I loved her then and I still do today.
“But towards the end, as only lovers can, she got pretty mean and cruel to me. She didn’t tolerate fools… and believe me, she had a mean right hook.’
In the past, Pete has pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine.
In 2012, he was kicked out of a luxury rehab clinic in Thailand after claiming he was a bad influence on other patients and not making enough effort to quit his heroin addiction.
Peter said earlier last year that after moving to Normandy he slept a lot, ate French cheese and drank water.
He generally enjoys a much slower life these days and has reportedly taken up the sport of bocce, pétanque.