‘I have lost weight but it is a constant fight’: Robbie Williams details his struggles with his diet and says he’s ‘better than ok’ after slimming down
Robbie Williams has admitted that he is finally happy following his recent weight loss as he celebrated the release of his new album on Friday.
The singer, 48, who has spoken openly in the past about his addictions to both food and drugs, added that he has learned to accept himself and is ‘doing better than ok.’
His latest album XXV, comes 25 years after he embarked on a solo career following his departure from Take That, and subsequent battles with his diet and drugs.
‘Better than ok’: Robbie Williams, 48, has admitted that he is finally happy following his recent weight loss as he celebrated the release of his new album on Friday (pictured in August 2022)
Speaking in an interview with The Sun, Robbie said: ‘I have lost weight but it is a constant fight. Inside me there’s a giant person.
‘Thank God for vanity, and thank God for my job, because if I didn’t do what I do for a living I dread to think what I would look like and what I would become.’
Robbie confessed that he has an ‘addictive nature’ and struggles with this sugar intake and eating healthy foods.
In the past: The singer, who has spoken openly about his addictions to both food and drugs, added that he has learned to accept himself and is ‘doing better than ok’ (pictured in 1996)
The singer, who has now been sober for 20 years, revealed that he has finally learned to accept himself after struggling in the past.
He added: ‘I hated myself and I thought I couldn’t sing and looked like s**t. If anyone thought I was wandering round with an inflated sense of self-importance it is actually the opposite.
It comes as Robbie candidly revealed that he gained vast amounts of weight when he used to get high and go food shopping.
The singer found himself on a slippery slope when he left Take That in 1995 and adjusted to his new life.
He added: ‘I hated myself and I thought I couldn’t sing and looked like s**t. If anyone thought I was wandering round with an inflated sense of self-importance it is actually the opposite’
Speaking on his At Home with Williamses podcast, the star said his drug use and bad diet contributed to his weight gain.
He said: ‘I rented a flat. I went to the supermarket on my first shop. Prior to. stoned. Don’t go to a supermarket stoned. You make bad choices.
‘I opened the fridge and there was this whole Mr Kipling cake. And I can remember this moment going, ‘Hang on, I don’t live with my mum. I can eat all that cake’.’
He explained that his newfound freedom caused him to put on the pounds in the following months.
Tough: He found himself on a slippery slope after leaving Take That in 1995 (pictured left with Mark Owen, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange and Howard Donald LR in 1992)
He said: ‘That was January. By February I was morbidly obese. I looked like a farm animal as it was quoted in the press in 1996, ‘Mr Kipling is ab*****d’.’
Robbie has been open about his struggles with drugs and his weight in the past and he was made an ambassador for Weight Watchers in 2018.
The star went into rehab in 2007 after taking speed, acid, heroin, cocaine and ‘heart-stopping’ amounts of prescription drugs.
He previously admitted he was just ’24 hours away from death’ at the height of his addiction, which saw him taking a dangerous cocktail of drugs.
He said in 2009: ‘I would do 20 Vicodin in a night. I might have been 24 hours away from dying. Then I’d take Adderall, which was like speed for people with ADHD. I’d be doing colossal, heart-stopping amounts of that.’
Battles: The pop star, pictured in 1996, went into rehab in 2007 after taking speed, acid, heroin, cocaine and ‘heart-stopping’ amounts of prescription drugs
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