Ex-Libertine Carl Barat has spoken to the Guardian about the collapse of his former band, insisting that he didn't fire Pete Doherty.
Talking ahead of the release of his new band's debut album next month (Dirty Pretty Things' 'Waterloo To Anywhere'), Barat told the paper: "I never kicked him out of the band, I said to Pete, 'You're in a state, you're not turning up for things, you're doing terrible things, which we won't go into - don't come to play this gig. You've missed half the tour anyway - don't come and play this gig. I don't think you're well enough'. He went nuts, and he wasn't well enough anyway, so we continued without him and the long and short of it is that afterwards I said, 'Don't come and play with us till you sort yourself out'. He took that as a massive 'up yours', got angry about it and rather than rectify the problems we were talking about he went and formed a band that would put up with his problems so it wouldn't be an issue."