Pete Doherty says he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes

Pete Doherty has shared that he has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The 44-year-old lead singer and guitarist for the Libertines has been open about his past struggles with alcohol and drugs, leading to several encounters with the law.

In a documentary with Louis Theroux last year, he called himself a "very sick man" due to his lifestyle. Speaking to the Guardian's Saturday magazine, Pete said: "I gave up the main poisons and my health improved.

"Then you get told alcohol and cheese and sugar are just as bad and you were healthier when you were on heroin."

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He admitted that he is "a bit of a glutton", adding: "It's not a joke. I've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

"And at the moment I'm lacking the discipline to tackle cholesterol."

Reflecting on his relationship with his father, he said: "I love him so much and I feel that a big part of me changing the way I'm living my life, particularly since I got married and stopped taking heroin, is to be accepted by him.

"I think it's too much for him to see past."

He added: "I think I've done things that have made our relationship better, but in my heart I still feel I can't... I don't know.

"I'd have to score a hat-trick in the World Cup final for my dad to say all is forgiven, or make a million from selling this album.

"When I go up there with Billie-May and my wife, he says to me, 'Are you still trying with the music?'.

"If I picked him up in a limo with a chauffeur or had a helicopter landing he'd be like, 'Oh, yeah!'.

"But for me I've always been happy to write songs that I'm f****** proud of. Maybe I'm still really seeking it."

Doherty welcomed a baby girl, named Billie-May Doherty, with his wife