Cheryl ColeGirls Aloud star Cheryl Cole has said she dislikes the amount of press coverage dedicated to Pete Doherty and his relationship with Kate Moss.

She told GQ magazine recently: “I can’t stand it when papers print photos of people like him.”

“It glorifies everything I hate: being a smackhead. Heroin is devil’s dust, it ruins lives and families, and everything it touches.”

“I’ve seen what drugs do to people. I went out with a heroin addict, my little brother got into drugs, I’ve lost friends to drugs.”

“It put me off for life. I saw people change overnight. A very good friend of mine died at 21 two years ago from heroin and to see his picture in the paper with a needle in his arm…”

“And then to see pictures of Doherty glamorising it, and with Kate Moss on his arm, too. It makes me sick.”

“Kate is supposed to be away from him at the moment, so I’d say to her, ‘Stay away. Leopards don’t change their spots’.”

“I’ve seen beautiful women deteriorate through drugs so fast and become ugly overnight.”