British rocker Pete Doherty has checked into rehab, a source confirms to PEOPLE.

The Babyshambles frontman is staying in the $600-per-day Clouds House, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, about two-and-a-half hours southwest of London.

Doherty, who recently used the UK’s Daily Mirror to profess his love for on-off girlfriend Kate Moss, spent part of Friday in group therapy.

At the 38-bed facility, the singer is expected to do chores – called “Therapeutic Duties” – including vacuuming the lounge in the shared house or setting the table for dinner. He can also take part in Friday night sing-alongs with a band called Mustard Seed, who put “recovery lyrics to popular music,” according to the center’s Web site.

A friend tells PEOPLE: “He really needs help, and we’re grateful he’s getting it.”

Doherty has battled drug addiction for years and has had numerous run-ins with police for drug offenses. In July he admitted in court to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as to two driving infractions.

Earlier this week, the 28-year-old singer was arrested on suspicion of carrying drugs after police stopped his car in East London. He escaped jail on a technicality: Police failed to take him to a courthouse in the required time limit.

He has previously received treatment at The Priory.

Source: People

As the dust begins to settle following the end of the volatile relationship between Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, the Babyshambles frontman has been speaking about their split. Anyone hoping to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, however, will be disappointed, as accounts by Pete featured in the British press seem contradictory.

According to The Mirror, the last straw for Kate was watching the trailer for a film about the troubled musician which showed him getting cosy with a number of fans. Having seen the ten-minute clip she apparently threw him out. In the same publication Pete this week pleads with his estranged love to make up with him. “Take me back,” he begs the 33-year-old supermodel. “Kate, if you love me then realise I don’t want any other girl.”

By the time he spoke to The Sun, however, the musician had changed his tune. Denying he’s desperate for a reconciliation, he claimed he’d been the one to do the leaving. “Why would I beg her to have me back? Why would she come back? She hasn’t spoken to me,” he insisted.

When news of the split broke it was reported that the 28-year-old musician had been unfaithful to the covergirl. But Pete says the claims are untrue. “Obviously there has been the stuff about me cheating. But that was after a bad period of arguments,” he says, insisting: “I didn’t cheat on her”.

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