Pete Doherty ordered to 18 months of rehab


Pete Doherty was put on 2 years probation and ordered to attend an 18-month rehab program as part of his sentencing for drug charges today. Doherty is also banned from driving for six months, and will undoubtedly abandon his many second-hand Jaguars.

The rehab program must be outpatient, because the judge said she would work around Doherty’s Babyshambles tour schedule:

Prosecutors noted the rocker’s flippant – yet open – demeanor when he was arrested Dec. 18, one of a long line of run-ins with police.

Court documents said that when police found plastic bags of crack cocaine in his right sock, Doherty told officers: “I didn’t think I had it in there.”

[Judge] McIvor told Doherty she would adhere to his pre-planned drug rehabilitation regimen, choosing the dates of his court-ordered drug tests around his lengthy tour schedule.

“It’s a long, slow process, but you are showing sufficient signs of compliance and effort,” McIvor said. She noted that Doherty hadn’t been arrested for drugs since Jan. 14

Doherty may be turning around despite his outspoken love of most all drugs. He bragged before a concert in Ireland last week that he was sober. He’s also scheduled to play in a celebrity soccer tournament!

Dohery was said to have reconciled with famous supermodel Kate Moss, and even bragged that they were planning to marry soon. Moss was spotted holding hands with an Israeli financier while in New York recently, however, and has called her sex life “nonexistent.”

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