Robbie Williams: “I’ve always felt overwhelmed, being famous sucks”

Robbie Williams celebrates 25 years of career and will leave Italy, precisely from Bologna, to celebrate the goal together with his fans. For the British pop star, who achieved success first with Take That and later as a solo artist, most of those years were plagued by mental issues that at times led him to struggle even to the death. Al Corriere spoke of the quarter century lived between music, success and depression.

Robbie Williams’ words

“It’s nice to be at a point in my life where I can take some time to breathe and say to myself “well, what the hell. Well done”“: Robbie William seems to have passed the height of his career and in an interview with Corriere he confessed that he deserves the praise for the achievement. “The feeling is that now I don’t have to worry about being irrelevant and that’s great. I’d say it’s good to be me now.” he explained, remembering the time when he was constantly uncomfortable, burdened with fame.

I felt lost most of the time and my thoughts were mostly “this is too overwhelming. Why do I feel like this? How do I give up? Where am I? Mother help me”. I would say I felt this way for 20 of those 25 years.

When asked about “how do you do?“, the artist revealed that he learned to live with it. The biggest difficulty was finding himself with mental problems being part of the music industry” che, in turn, causes him mental problems“.”If I were a carpenter, I would still have mental issues, but this industry is probably not as intense as spending your life in the spotlight.“.

The relationship with fame

The British artist for years on the crest of the wave and an absolute example of a pop star, said that the best moment of his beginnings dates back to when he discovered he was going to join Take That. “I said to myself “oh my God, I’m going to be famous.” There wasn’t a moment when I felt better. Then I got famous and it was a lot of shit”. Williams explained that the idea of ​​becoming famous was so liberating and fascinating, much more so than being famous itself. If he thinks about the best moment of his career, however, he cannot answer: “I don’t know where I was or when I felt like I was in heaven, but I know it happened, I know a lot of people chose to tell me I did a good job and still choose to tell me, loving me when I’m on stage, and which makes you feel very powerful, it’s beautiful.” However, as many people confess to him that they hate him, despising all his work: “But I like to think that the first aspect can prevail over the other.”