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Zara Woodcock

Netflix announces tell-all Robbie Williams documentary - Addiction, affairs and Take That

Netflix have announced a tell-all Robbie Williams documentary that will explore his addictions, affairs and his reunions with former band Take That.

The multi-part series will be released in 2023 and will be an honest exploration of all the highs and lows of his 30-year career.

It was announced that the series will cover how Robbie dealt with the media scrutiny, addictions, affairs, recoveries and more

The impact fame had on his mental health and relationships will also be explored in the upcoming series.

Netflix described the project as: "Featuring 25 years' worth of intimate, never-before-seen archive, and exclusive access to Robbie; this definitive series is a no-holds-barred look at the entertainer and will reveal a more nuanced and multifaceted character."

Netflix will release the series in 2023 (Farrell Music Ltd. Photograph by Leo Baron)

The project will be directed by Joe Pearlman (Bros: After the Screaming Stops) and executive produced by Asif Kapadia (Amy, Diego Maradona, Senna) and Dominic Crossley-Holland (The Love of Money, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace).

The 48-year-old singer has had several stints in rehab to overcome addictions to booze, prescription pills and other substances, but proudly overcome his issues and has touched alcohol for 20 years.

He has opened up about his addictions as well as his worries for his children - Teddy, nine, Charlie, seven, Coco, three, and two-year-old Beau - with his wife Ayda Field.

The star struggled with addictions in his past (PA)

Robbie previously revealed that when they are old enough to start drinking they will have the same addictive personality that he has.

He said: “I’ve been sober for 20 years, I haven’t had a drink for 20 years. In that period there was a period of time for a year where I relapsed on a certain substance.

“When I was 19 something happened to me one evening where I woke up the next day and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m an alcoholic and I’m an addict.’ I didn’t do anything about it for another two to three years. I have mainly been a sober person for a majority of my life.

"Where I am now as a 46 year old is content. There’s no binge. The last bastion of negative addictions for me that I can’t cope with is food, and I’m getting that down, I’m managing that, I’m managing that addiction.

He previously discussed being worried for his children - who he shares with Ayda Field (Ayda Field/Instagram)
Take That circa 1991 (Getty Images)

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Robbie admits he started taking drugs to try and cope with the enormous fame he experienced from the age of 16 as a member of Take That.

The Angels hitmaker - who became one of the world’s biggest solo stars after quitting the band in 1995 - would booze and take drugs to try and fulfil people’s expectations of him, and it took him a long time to realise he didn’t have to destroy himself with substances to please other people.

Speaking on the Bought The T-Shirt podcast, he said: “I took drugs to become the person that the world was telling me I should be. When really I’m an introvert, and it’s OK to be an introvert.

“I’m an introvert with extrovert tendencies. I’m an extrovert for a living but I’m an introvert in real life.”

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