![]() She called on Christmas Eve and said, I’m sending a car for you to come down to the country. He’s a user in every sense of the word.” Everything was falling apart. Kate was quoted in the Mirror saying, “I wish I’d never met him. I said, yeah, but you were supposed to come and get me in a helicopter for a day trip to the Grand Canyon. When Kate found out I hadn’t finished the treatment, she told me point-blank that that was it, there was no way we could see each other now. ![]() After two weeks, Kate was supposed to come and visit me and take me to the Grand Canyon in a helicopter, and I got the right hump when she didn’t show up. It was a different vibe than UK rehab – a mix of absolutely loaded trust-fund kids and people trying to avoid federal convictions by doing rehab. When I got to the Meadows, they found all the bits in my baggage, plus what I’d hidden inside the lining of my jeans – they really knew their stuff. It was so weird.ĭoherty, photographed in France last month. He went, “All right, Pete, you off to rehab?” It was like he knew what was going on, and then I followed the police car all the way to Heathrow. I was woken up, with a crack pipe in my mouth, by a policeman banging on the window. When I set off for my treatment at the Meadows, I had all my drugs hidden in my luggage and fell asleep on the hard shoulder on my way to Heathrow in my Jag. There were all these stupid things in the papers about us breaking up, but it was all bollocks. She was also supposed to have dumped me, but we were actually still in touch – the agreement was that after she’d gone to rehab, I’d go for a month as well. As a sort of mea culpa, she went to treatment at the Meadows in Arizona, a well-known celebrity rehab place. The police even wanted to speak to her, but she wasn’t charged because of lack of evidence. The whole thing really fucked up Kate’s contracts – she lost loads, including a reputed £4m-a-year deal with H&M – and all her people were fuming at me. I just presumed a friend of mine must have done it. She said, if you didn’t sell the photos, how did they get in the papers? And I couldn’t say. There had been times in the past when photos had been taken off my phone and used in the press, so after the “High As a Kate” thing Kate turned against me. She lost loads, including a reputed £4m-a-year deal with H&M After the ‘High as a Kate’ thing, she turned against me. He’d say, “I’ve been in touch with a guy from the Mirror or the Sun and they want to do a positive piece,” and he’d end up brokering the deal. ![]() Paul had everyone’s mobile number, and he was always trying to set things up with the papers. They were used on the front of the Mirror on 15 September 2005, under the headline “High As a Kate”. The pictures were supposed to be worth £300,000. I’ve always wondered if the big Kate exposé, where she was photographed appearing to snort cocaine in during a Babyshambles session, had something to do with Paul Ro. My dad said to Kate, “What do you do?” She was only small, and he didn’t associate her with the supermodel from the papers. I’d filled it with a load of red plastic furniture and a couple of inflatable chairs. My mum and dad and little sister Emily came and met Kate at this new little flat I’d moved into in Islington. I met her parents early on and got on quite well with her mum. ![]() I wanted her to prove her love, so I said, you’ve got to get a tattoo with my initials on, you’ve got to get branded – it was more of an insecurity thing on my part. ![]() We got matching tattoos that first week too. We used to have a bit of a laugh, really. We got dressed up in disguise, put on wigs, and jumped on the bus around London. Despite being this multimillionaire, she was saying how she was really just a girl from a council estate in Croydon, so in the first week we were together, I insisted she get on a bus with me. We’d meet in strange back rooms of restaurants in London. A lot of mine and Kate’s early meetings were quite clandestine. ![]()
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