Pete Doherty has been warned that he risks having his toes amputated amid his struggle with type 2 diabetes.
The Libertines star, 45, said during the Munich of his European tour that a doctor told him to “stay off his feet” otherwise he could “lose his toes”.
The rocker has performed from a chair for five dates of the tour and has been wearing slippers or socks onstage, The Sun reported.
He told fans in Germany: “I saw the doctor today and he said you need to stay off your feet as much as you can otherwise you’ll lose your toes.”
On Friday, he was seen swapping his socks for a pair of orthopaedic shoes.
Doherty was also helped by his bandmate Carl Barat off the stage at a show in Cologne and walked with a walking stick at a gallery launch in Berlin earlier this month.
The Can’t Stand Me Now hitmaker revealed last year that he had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a condition that raises the risk of severe foot problems and amputation.
The musician - who dated Kate Moss from 2005 to 2007 - previously told the Evening Standard about his struggle to overhaul his diet.
“I have seen a liver doctor who says I need to change my diet - too much cheese, too much milk,” he said last year.
“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.”
He added to the Guardian’s Saturday magazine later that year: “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.”
He admitted 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.”
Doherty previously revealed in 2022 that he “nearly lost his feet” amid his struggle with drug and alcohol addiction.
"I was really pushing the limits. There were a few close calls really. I nearly lost my feet and horrible things like that,” he told The Mirror.
"It was very close, just because of the injecting. That's what happens when you run out of veins. It all seems so long ago now though but it was a hell of a ride."
He added that there was no “epiphany” moment in his “tough” journey to getting sober, explaining that he did everything from rehab stints to “projectile vomiting” at a monastery in Thailand.
"People who have been in active addiction would say to me, 'One day you'll just know it's the time to stop.' Somehow the balance has shifted,” he said.
