Pete Doherty looked every inch the family man as he spent time with daughter Billie-May and partner Katia de Vidas at a motorway service station before returning home to Normandy. 

The rocker, 45, Pete has left his turbulent past behind and now lives a quiet life in the North of France with his loved ones.

And ahead of making the drive back to their home, Pete, Katia and Billie-May, 19 months, were spotted getting some fresh air as they stretched their legs in the car park.

The, who were joined by their pet dog, family had stocked up on some groceries and used the facilities during the break from their journey before making their way back to their van.

The Libertines frontman was seen puffing on a cigarette as he helped his partner with their young daughter, who at one point became fussy and slumped to the floor. 

Dressed in a white patterned shirt and bright blue shorts, Pete looked relaxed and happy amid a overhaul in his lifestyle. 

Pete Doherty looked every inch the family man as he spent time with daughter Billie-May and partner Katia de Vidas at a motorway service station before returning home to Normandy

Ahead of making the drive back to their home, Pete, Katia and Billie-May, 19 months, were spotted getting some fresh air as they stretched their legs in the car park

Pete, who had a highly publicised battle with drugs, has given up the ‘main poisons’ to improve his health after his doctor issued a stark warning following his Type 2 diabetes last year. 

The singer, who has always been open about his prolific battles with drug addiction, including crack cocaine and heroin, has been sober for three years. 

But Pete admitted that he then faced a new struggle after enjoying a less than healthy diet consisting of ‘cheese and sugar’. 

Speaking to The Guardian’s Saturday Magazine in February, he 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.’

Pete then went on to call himself ‘a bit of a glutton’.

‘It’s not a joke,’ he said. ‘I’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And at the moment I’m lacking the discipline to tackle cholesterol.’ 

But it seems Pete has worked on his lack of discipline after receiving some harsh words from his doctor.

The star previously told the Evening Standard that his doctor had told him he had to change his diet immediately. 

The, who were joined by their pet dog, family had stocked up on some groceries and used the facilities during the break from their journey before making their way back to their van 

Dressed in a white patterned shirt and bright blue shorts, Pete looked relaxed and happy amid a overhaul in his lifestyle

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He told the publication: ‘I have seen a liver doctor who says I need to change my diet – too much cheese, too much milk.

‘But the cheese is so good, that’s part of the reason I stay here… It’s a cholesterol and diabetes thing now, but there are tablets, it makes a big difference.’

The rocker has previously admitted that his larger figure is the result of tucking in to his guilty pleasure. 

In 2021,  Pete explained that he had ditched the drugs and was instead indulging on cheese on toast and enjoying long lie ins after staying up for six days straight during his wildest years. 

He told The Sun about his new lifestyle: ‘I like Comté [a type of French cheese], Comté on toast. My guilty pleasure is sleeping.

The singer, who has always been open about his prolific battles with drug addiction, including crack and heroin, has been sober for three years (pictured in May, 2005)

Pete admitted that he now faces a new struggle after enjoying a less than healthy diet consisting of ‘cheese and sugar’

The rocker has previously admitted that his larger figure is the result of tucking in to his guilty pleasure – including French cheese which he started to enjoy after relocating with his wife Katia de Vida (pictured together August,2023)

Pete previously told documentary-maker Louis Theroux he was ‘a very sick man’ in his Louis Theroux Interviews series and didn’t expect to live much longer

‘For years and years, I would stay up for five or six days and then I would sleep for 24 hours, so now I love sleep. At the moment I’m quite clean. I stopped taking heroin and ketamine.’

He added: ‘I like experimenting, making cocktails with champagne, a bit of rum, orange juice, I’m coming across like a bit of an alcoholic, but I’m not — I like a nice glᴀss of water.’

Pete previously told documentary-maker Louis Theroux he was ‘a very sick man’ in his Louis Theroux Interviews series.

Due to his former lifestyle, the musician admitted he doesn’t see himself living long and said that he thinks ‘death is lurking’.

He has been off hard drugs for three years, but said he still drinks and was seen swigging rum and chain smoking in the Theroux interview.