Barat said to the NME: I never kicked him out of the band. I said to Pete, 'You're in a state, you're not turning up for things, you're doing terrible things, which we won't go into - don't come to play this gig.
�You've missed half the tour anyway - don't come and play this gig. I don't think you're well enough.'
"He went nuts, and he wasn't well enough anyway, so we continued without him and the long and short of it is that afterwards I said, 'Don't come and play with us till you sort yourself out.'
"He took that as a massive 'up yours', got angry about it and rather than rectify the problems we were talking about he went and formed a band that would put up with his problems so it wouldn't be an issue."
Hmmm�not an issue eh? I reckon his new Babyshambles band mates would disagree.
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