Robbie Williams reveals mega-hit Angels is about hanging out with ghosts as a child
The singer, 45, admitted that as a kid he used to 'talk to dead people'
ROBBIE Williams used to spook his dad out by speaking to dead people - inspiring the hit song “I’m loving angels instead”.
The singer, who has quit the next series of The X Factor, said he had been attracted to "unusual phenomena" all his life.
Robbie, 45, said: "When I was a kid I used to talk to dead people.
“I freaked my father out when I was three, four and five and they were people that had passed on.
"I had lucid dreams. There's been UFOs, one close enough I could throw a tennis ball.
“I used to call them ghosts but I don't anymore as I don't know what they are.
"I've seen things that I can't explain that have influenced my life and the path that I'm constantly on.
“The phenomena has been constant so there hasn't been a moment of my life when I haven't been aware of the presence of something unseen.
"The very first song I wrote was Angels and it's about actual Angels.
“People think it's about my mum or think it's about somebody I loved but it's actually about angels. That's been my biggest hit by far.
“If it wasn't for my belief or semi belief or trying to understand what it is I see and feel every now and again I wouldn't be where I am."
He claims he saw a UFO as he wrote his 2009 hit Arizona while living in the San Fernando Valley in LA.
He said: "I'm in my old house and we started to write this song called Arizona which is about alien abduction and while we were in the process of producing I look up and there was a golden globe in the sky.
Robbie spoke out to plug a new documentary he's starring in called Hunt for the Skinwalker which follows scientists investigating a Navajo reservation in Utah, US.
But Robbie admits non on his fellow celebs share his passion, adding: "There's nobody in my circle that has this strange obsession that I have.
He added: “The only mainstay throughout my life has been unusual phenomena, soccer and so far, my current wife."
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