When I first met Katia in 2008, I didn’t really see her face. She’d been commissioned by a French music paper to film gigs with my band, Babyshambles, and she was always hidden behind the camera. I’m not saying I fell in love straight away; it was more a case of wondering if someone so wonderful would ever want to share her life with an addict.
Relationships have been ruined by my desire for hard drugs. It wasn’t that I’d given up on love, but I tried to make love work in tandem with drugs. That was never going to happen with Katia. As we spent more time together and became good friends, I could see that she had no interest in drugs or fame.
