Robbie Williams reveals he was convinced he’d kill himself after ‘doing lots of cocaine’ while living in haunted house
ROBBIE Williams revealed "dark energy" in a haunted London house combined with heavy cocaine use made him convinced he'd kill himself.
The singer, 45, recalled his time living in Primrose Hill with an ex-girlfriend in an interview with Jo Woods' Alien Nation podcast, and told how he fled the property, built on a black death burial site, to stay in a hotel.
As reported by , he said: "Instantly I picked up on it being weird and dark and having an energy. The first time it manifested itself as something physical the ghetto blaster came on.
"I was doing a lot of coke at the time. I would be in the house but hear footsteps go up the stairs. It got progressively worse. She (the ex-girlfriend) thought it was her grandad.
"I would get in the car and whatever it was would jump in the backseat. Two months in, I couldn’t deal with it any more. I thought if this stays with me I was going to commit suicide."
Robbie has been open about his drug use in the past, and things reached a dire state in 2007, with his managers Tim Clark and David Enthoven flying to his Los Angeles home and forcing him to go to rehab.
He wrote in his book Reveal: “It was going to take an intervention to get me to rehab and save my life. I’d been to rehab before, and they’re such brain-numbingly boring places. That was the last place I wanted to go to.”
The meeting was scheduled for a Wednesday so he decided to go on a bender on the Monday.
A knock came on Tuesday. He recalled: “As soon as I heard their voices I thought, ‘The game’s up, I’m going to rehab’. I was just really annoyed that I’d gotten myself into such a state.
“And there I was on this aeroplane, being flown to Arizona, kicking the f***ing seat in front of me so many times because I couldn’t believe I’d allowed myself to get in that position again.
“I f***ing hated it. Absolutely hated it.”
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If he hadn’t gone?
He said: “I’d be f***ing dead . . . overdose. And it could have been the Wednesday or the Tuesday, the Tuesday they came.”
Robbie was flown to the Meadows clinic in Tucson, Arizona, notorious for its strict regime. But he turned his life around and recalls speaking to boyband One Direction at a Royal Variety Performance about fatherhood.
At different times, Robbie was taking morphine, Adderall (used to treat narcolepsy and ADHD), Vicodin (pain killer) speed, Seroquel (used for treating schizophrenia) and cocaine combined, magic mushrooms and “a few more things”.
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