Robbie Williams was “dying” three years ago.
The ‘Bodies’ singer admits his spiral into addiction had got so bad that he was close to death in 2007 - and did not care about it.
He said: “I was not in a good place. I was dying. I got to a point where I really, genuinely didn’t care.
“I’d just got fat and depressed before. Then this one was like, you might die, now. Cool!”
Robbie, 36, claims his addiction to drugs began in 1993, when he first took cocaine given to him by an unnamed 80s pop star.
He said: “I’d already tried speed, ecstasy and acid but never cocaine. I think it was a symptom of a problem personally for me, for my own make-up. And also professionally for me where I was, with the people that I was with and how we were being looked after.”
However, since a trip to rehab in 2007, Robbie - who is engaged to actress Ayda Field - has been getting his life back on track, although he admits that he did pile on the pounds last year because his overuse of cannabis made him very hungry.
He told the Radio Times magazine: “Did you see me last year?
Have a look at last year. Year of the munchie, 2009.” Weed, it’s such a lovely drug. It is such a lovely drug.
But it doesn’t mix well with me – at all. It doesn’t take much to trigger- I mean, I’ll get psychosis from a cup of tea! Seriously. The caffeine in that is enough!”
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