Pete Doherty was spotted hoarding artefacts from his previous relationship with Kate Moss, which surprised him.
Back in 2005, the Libertines frontman met the supermodel while playing at her 31st birthday party at her Cotswolds estate, and the pair quickly fell in love.
Over the course of their two years together, they were one of the most talked-about celebrity couples, with Pete, now 44, revealing on stage that they were engaged.
The couple had a whirlwind courtship that made headlines, such as when Kate was seen taking cocaine during a recording session for his band Babyshambles.
She lost many modelling jobs as a result of the controversy, including a £4 million agreement with H&M.
They split up in 2007, but Pete disclosed in a new interview with Louis Theroux at his house in Normandy that he had kept some of his ex’s personal items.
Pete seems surprised when Louis notices a bag with an eye-catching label while showing him around his studio ahead of their sit-down interview, which airs tonight.
In an exclusive clip, Pete tells Louis that the various items he’s collected over the years are ‘artefacts from the shipwreck of my life’.
‘That caught my eye,’ Louis said, then pointing to a suitcase with a monogram that reads: ‘Kate Moss- Do Not Touch.’
‘Oh my god I know and mine! I saw that. I didn’t know what it was. I thought it was just an old suitcase that had lots of stuff in it,’ he replied.
‘Then bang I opened it and there it is. Do not touch.’
The couple then made a joke about the label itself, claiming that it was unnecessary because the message was inscribed inside the object.
Louis then held up a photograph of the pair from years ago, with Pete then quipping: ‘This is making it now look like I have an old locker full of Kate Moss memories.’
He then said that he’d recently seen her in a Diet Coke commercial and had done an impression of her from it.
Pete revealed numerous details about his two-year romance with Kate, as well as their break-up, in his 2022 memoir, A Likely Lad.
He wrote that there was ‘not really one specific incident that finished the relationship’, but that their worlds were ‘not really compatible in the end’.
Pete was addicted to crack and heroin at the time they were together, but he revealed last year that his drug usage was a major part in their relationship’s demise.
‘Kate Moss didn’t go to crack dens,’ he told The Irish Times.
‘She never had an interest in all that, and, if I’m honest, that’s why we broke up.’
Pete also discusses his battles with addiction and its long-term influence on his life in the conversation with Louis, as well as his new calm life in France with his wife and young daughter.
When asked about his sobriety, the artist said that he was “still reeling from the shock of having gotten clean,” but that his years of drug use had compromised his mortality and that it was “a stretch” to imagine he’d be alive to see his daughter marry.
Louis Theroux Interviews… airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on BBC Two and is streaming on iPlayer.