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Pete Doherty had taken up meditation to cope with the stress of being on the road, his bandmate said. Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek said the singer, who recently left rehab, was also into the Chinese martial art, tai chi.
He told Xfm: "All is very, very swell in Shambles land at the moment, as always. It's maybe just slightly less swell at certain times. You won't believe this, but Pete's actually meditating next door right now. I've got him into it. I do a lot of tai chi ... Stranger things have happened in the land of Babyshambles." Doherty, 28, recently apologised for taking heroin hours after he claimed to have kicked the habit.
He called it "a stupid action for which I feel only shame" and vowed to make a return to rehab.