Manic Street Preacher James Dean Bradfield has said that he has no advice for Pete Doherty, despite his experiences with troubled former fellow bandmate Richey Edwards, who, of course, has been 'missing' since 1995, but has never been legally declared dead, and who had a history of self-harm and alcoholism.
The comments were prompted by questions addressing possibly parallels between Doherty and Edwards. Bradfield told the BBC: "I would never have any advice to give to anybody who is close to Pete Doherty or to Pete Doherty himself because I don't feel qualified, because we really didn't know what to do ourselves with Richey. We've re-traced our steps in terms of what happened to Richey so many times and at the end of the day Richey was surrounded by people who cared about him and who were quite sensible and still we couldn't help."