Robbie Williams is one of biggest stars in pop history, having risen to fame in the ’90s with the band Take That, before going on to forge a successful solo career.
And while he’s produced hits including Angels, Rock DJ and Feel, Williams, now 49, has faced his fair share of demons over the years while dealing with the highs and lows of fame.
The singer, who has long been open about his battles with addiction, is laying his life bare in a new four-part Netflix documentary, which is set to be released on November 8.
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From dumping Geri Halliwell, breaking up with his now-wife Ayda Field via a phone call to his years-long feud with Take That bandmate Gary Barlow and more – read on to see the biggest bombshells from Robbie Williams’ new Netflix documentary.
Breaking up with now-wife Ayda Field via a phone call
According to Entertainment Daily, Williams and Field once broke up very early on in their relationship, with the pop singer pulling the plug on their romance with a phone call.
Field reportedly recalls in the series: “I remember it was 2am and I called him and I was like, ‘I am just getting on the highway’ and he’s like, ‘Are you driving? Call me when you get home.'”
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“My management have done an intervention and they’re gonna take me to rehab,” Field says Williams told her on the call.
“And he is like, ‘I can’t be in a relationship, I have to get better and I can’t be with you. I have to break up with you.’”
Field said she remembers just wanting Williams to “get better,” saying: “And it was like, I understood it because I saw that he was unwell and I remember thinking, ‘I just want you to get better.'”
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He previously said on the Jonathan Ross Show in 2020 that Field ”saved his life”.
The pair tied the knot in 2010.
“I look back at 15 years of being with my wife, she did, she gave me a life,” he said.
“Here I am on the telly getting emotional. She absolutely did.”
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Geri Halliwell’s ‘betrayal’
Williams is also set to touch on his brief romance with Spice Girls star Geri Halliwell in his new docuseries.
The pair had started seeing each other in the early 2000s, even going on a trip together with William’s writing partner Guy Chambers and his wife Emma in the South of France.
But soon, camcorder footage was leaked of the two of them on a yacht where they were seen wrestling and doing silly voices together.
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Williams was told by paparazzi that it was in fact Ginger Spice that was tipping off the press, leading him to end their fling.
More than two decades on, the former Take That member says he now knows that Halliwell was not to blame for the ‘betrayal’.
“I have only amazing things to say about her now,” he told The Sun ahead of his four-part Netflix documentary dropping “I never accused her [of going to paps] at the time and obviously I know now she wasn’t.”
He recalled the holiday itself as a ”very important holiday for me because I was happy, because I wasn’t before and I wasn’t really for a long time after.”
This was because the former pop-star found Halliwell’s company “very easy.”
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“There is a silliness. We really got on really well. It was fun,” he said of the relationship.
They continue to maintain a good, yet “confusing relationship,” Williams said.
”We are very good friends trying to sort out the wreckage of the past.”
Williams, now 49, has been married to Ayda Field since 2010, with whom he shares two daughters and two sons.
Halliwell, 51, has been married to Christian Horner since 2015 and has two children with him.
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‘Who did you hate the most in Take That and why?’: Robbie Williams on Gary Barlow feud
Take That originally formed in 1990 and found success with hits such as Babe, Never Forget and Back for Good.
Williams left the group in 1995 and the group continued as a foursome until he rejoined in 2010 for the band’s sixth studio album, Progress.
He then left again in 2011, followed by Jason Orange in 2014, with the group – now consisting of Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald – continuing to release music sporadically.
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Entertainment Daily reports that Williams addresses his feud with Gary Barlow in his docuseries, when his daughter asks him: “Who did you hate the most [in the band] and why?”
“I disliked Gary the most because he was the one that was supposed to have everything and the career,” Williams said.
“And I wanted to make him pay. I was vengeful. By having the career that he was supposed to have.”
Robbie Williams opens up about his mental health
Williams is also reportedly set to speak about his battle with anorexia in the docuseries.
He told The Sun that he had ”bigorexia,” saying: “There’s been an overarching eating disorder that has been with me all my life, it’s a mixture of all the disorders.”
“I had ‘bigorexia’, which is thinking you have no muscles and no size, and anorexia… It was either restrictive or over-eating – I’ve never had it right.”
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