Robbie Williams takes responsibility for his role in the darker chapters of his life. His unconventional autobiography A better man He doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to his addictions and abuses.
Williams said of the Paramount Pictures release: “There were so many villains in this movie that we couldn’t legally have so many villains in this movie.” “Now the only villain in this movie is me. I’m very happy to be the main villain in this movie.
The singer lamented that his first manager got off easy, and said early drafts of the script sided with Williams in his dispute with Take That bandmate Gary Barlow.
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“In the script, I talk the way I talk, and I think how I thought at the time,” Williams said. “We sent him the script and he called me. Jazz called me and said, ‘Rob, you were worse than Darth Vader in the first part. Star Wars“.
Williams agreed to tone down Barlow’s portrayal in the movie. He did not hesitate in his treatment of his girlfriend Nicole Appleton, herself a pop star in the girl group All Saints.
“She doesn’t deserve the copy she got from me,” he said. “I feel very ashamed that I didn’t represent myself in the best possible way because she deserves the best and she deserves the best from me and she didn’t get it.”
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Appleton and Williams had FaceTime tears after watching the movie. Williams had reservations about letting his father watch the movie. His father left the family early in Williams’ life.
“I don’t want him to see it,” he said. “I’ve done a lot of work on myself. I’ve done rehabilitation. I’ve been medicated. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for 24 years. I’ve learned how to do that and heal yourself. We Brits don’t do that. My father didn’t and didn’t need to. We didn’t have that conversation.”
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Williams attributes his candor in sharing his mistakes to neurodivergence, which he discussed in the Netxflix documentary. He has no filter to share them in his autobiography or on the Deadline stage.
“I don’t pick up on the cues that normal people say, it’s better if I don’t share that or it’s better if I don’t share it,” Williams said. “I’m good with social cues. I’ve got them. It’s all this other stuff. I say: ‘Here are my hemorrhoids. People say: ‘Maybe you shouldn’t show your hemorrhoids. I go, ‘Why, I have hemorrhoids, I don’t have them.'”
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