Nov 9, 2023 at 7:02 PM Update: 32 minutes ago
Robbie Williams has been making music for over thirty years and has been through a lot. The singer talks about his time with the popular boy band Take That, his solo career and his drug and alcohol addiction in a four-part documentary on Netflix.
In Robbie Williams: Raw. Honest. Real the highlights and the darkest periods in the life of the 49-year-old pop idol are discussed. For example, the Brit says that he was jealous of Gary Barlow, with whom he was in the popular boy band Take That for five years.
When Williams’ teenage daughter asks in the documentary which member of the five-member group he hated most, he names Barlow. “I didn’t like Gary because he was the one who had everything together. I wanted to get revenge on him by having a more successful solo career.”
Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow at a benefit concert in 2018. Photo: GettyImages
Distrust led to a break with Geri Halliwell
Another relationship that is featured in the documentary is that with Geri Halliwell. Williams and the Spice Girl had a short-lived love affair. According to the Angelssinger, the breakup of the relationship had to do with distrust.
Williams and Halliwell were continuously chased by paparazzi. When the singer asked one of the photographers how they were always aware of the couple’s agenda, he was told that Halliwell tipped off the paparazzi. “I absolutely don’t believe that anymore, but I did then. That’s what a life in the spotlight does to you. You get to a point where you don’t trust anyone anymore.”
Robbie Williams with wife Ayda Field. Photo: GettyImages
Williams struggled with eating disorders and addictions
Williams also opens up about his eating disorder for the first time. For a while he lived on a banana a day. “Sometimes I ate virtually nothing and other times I ate a lot. It was always one or the other. I have had an eating disorder all my life.”
His struggle with his drug and alcohol addiction is also discussed in the documentary. The singer used MDMA, cocaine and drank a lot of vodka for years. That almost cost him his relationship with his wife Ayda Field, whom he married in 2010.
Shortly after the two met, the singer started using drugs again. “My management intervened and forced me to go to rehab. I had to get better first before I could have a relationship with her.”
Eventually the two got back together and are still together. They have four children: Theodora Rose (11), Charlton Valentine (9), Colette Josephine (5) and Beau Benedict Enthoven (3).
2023-11-09 18:02:10
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