Robbie Williams has said he feels “remarkable” after coming out the other end of a more than decade-long struggle with his mental health. The Let Me Entertain You singer, 50, has a well-documented history of depression and has also fought drug and alcohol abuse. Speaking on the red carpet of the European premiere for his film Better Man on Wednesday, Williams said there is “beauty” at the end of a struggle like his.
The music star is the subject of a biopic with a twist as the former Take That member is played by a CGI chimpanzee – a comment on how he feels like a “performing monkey”. Williams said: “We’re getting quite knowledgeable with mental health, where to go and what to do. “Just know this.
It took me nearly a couple of decades to fight through it, and now I’m at the other end, and it’s beautiful. “And there is beauty at the end of that struggle, and it feels remarkable.” Last year Williams reflected on a career in the limelight in a self-titled Netflix documentary charting his success.
Discussing what he learned from the project, he said: “I discovered what I already knew before the documentary, and the film, that I’m incredibly ambitious, and these are tools that I need to utilise to propel me for my third act of my career. “I also realised that I’ve shared an awful lot of the person that I used to be, and now I’m somebody different, and I like this version of me much, much more.” Director of Better Man, Michael Gracey, who was.