Robbie Williams holds nothing back in El Hormiguero

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Robbie Williams holds nothing back in El Hormiguero

La Revuelta and El Hormiguero have had another great audience duel, with two guest singers. Broncano’s program has achieved another victory, with the interview with Dani Martín, and a 16.7% share. In the strict competition range, the difference is three points (17.4% vs 14.4%). However, Robbie Williams in El Hormiguero gave much more play.

“Drug addictions, bad company, bad friends, bad managers, weird record companies, bad decisions, with love, without love, without self-esteem, hating myself… With a pretty complicated inner life,” is how Williams describes his life. , captured in the biopic ‘Better Man’. From the beginning, Robbie doesn’t shut up.

At one point, he admits that the film’s story, in which he is abandoned by his father, is “the version my mother tells.” He also doesn’t shy away from talking about drugs, leaving an anecdote about the time he tried hallucinogenic mushrooms with Bono from U2: “I started looking at a painting and it was beautiful. Bono came up to me and I told him that was the best painting I had ever seen in my life. “He told me it was a window,” he said.

The former Take That member also told how he was signed to the group. «I went to do the casting and the manager always says that it didn’t go very well, but as I was leaving I turned around and winked at him. That made me say: This boy has something, let him come back,” says the singer. He also remembers the overwhelming success that came his way and how it led to “unleashed alcoholism”: “I was 19 when I first thought I had a problem, but I buried it,” he admits.

Without a doubt, the best anecdote that Williams told on the Pablo Motos program is the one that involves his ex-partner, Geri Halliwell, and how he managed to escape from the press thanks to her. The singer had twenty photographers at the door of his house and, after calling the police and them not helping him in any way, he came up with a brilliant idea: «In the end, I put Geri in a large sports bag, I put it on my shoulder, put it in the trunk of the car and we left.

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