Robbie Williams has opened up about a dark period in his life during his time in boy band Take That.
In the Netflix documentary of the same name, the now-51-year-old shared, “I was so depressed.
“I was going back to my hotel, downing a bottle of neat vodka. And I would just drink myself into oblivion.”
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Williams admitted he was “physically and mentally” gone.
“I was 19, 20, and I was, you know, in the middle of being a raging alcoholic,” he added.
“It was the worst for my alcoholism at that time.”
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The Better Man star shared that his mental health was so bad he couldn’t get out of bed “without probably downing a bottle of vodka.”
He’d go to rehearsals in this state, being unfit to participate, he recalled.
“My body would be full of crap, and my head’d hurt, and I couldn’t take in information at the best of times,” Williams said.
His fellow bandmates also recalled the period of time, with lead singer Gary Barlow feeling sorry and “embarrassed” he missed the “off-the-rails stuff” Williams was doing.
“No one was looking side-to-side to see how everyone was,” he said.
“We were just going forward.”
Howard Donald recalled Williams “jumping up and down on the stage with his bulbous eyes with all this f—ing energy.”
“He did look like he was on something,” the now-57-year-old said.
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Jason Orange shared that as Williams became ”more rebellious and more belligerent”, he became less interested in Take That and its success.
Williams’ issues with addiction and mental illness led to tensions within the group, and eventually his departure in 1996.
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By 2010, he made amends with his bandmates and rejoined the group. He then left again the next year to forge a solo career.
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