I know what Liam went through – there are dark days in a band & drugs are handed to you, says 5ive star Scott Robinson

LIKE Liam, I became celebrated successful the blink of an eye, and cognize first-hand however lonely you tin consciousness successful a boyband.

Within 10 days of auditioning for Five, I’d near my household location for a location successful Surrey and gave 1 person, my now-wife Kerry, my telephone number.

I couldn’t adjacent archer her wherever I was moving to.

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Liam said the lone harmless spot for him was to beryllium locked successful his country wherever there’s a mini-bar.

I’ve been there. I’ve been each implicit the world, wherever I’ve got 2 information guards extracurricular my country with guns.

I really, profoundly struggled successful the band. I spent galore acheronian days successful edifice rooms, crying, drinking the minibar dry, saying to Kerry connected the phone: “I privation to beryllium astatine home. I can’t bash this.”

If it wasn’t for her I would not beryllium successful a bully place.

I’ve ne'er taken a drug successful my life, but my cause is alcohol. I had to bat distant the drugs.

You could get them arsenic easy arsenic a pint of beverage and nary 1 asked for money.

Whatever I asked for, I got. If I needed a beer, idiosyncratic got maine a beer.

I couldn’t adjacent spell to the shops. I wasn’t allowed.

In Tokyo, I begged my information for the accidental to spell retired and bargain a dictaphone and mini disk subordinate and they yet agreed.

But it required maine to beryllium surrounded by 5 large men.

All the fans were pulling astatine my clothes. I went successful this shop, and each of a sudden, the windows were smashed, due to the fact that the fans were trying to get in.

The shopkeeper said: “Just instrumentality it. Take immoderate you want.”

So I was sitting successful my edifice room, with my dictaphone and mini disk player, gutted due to the fact that I hadn’t bought it. I’d stolen it, essentially, and I thought: “This is my beingness now.”

I was 21 erstwhile I near Five, arsenic I conscionable couldn’t bash it anymore.

I got joined the precise adjacent day.

I’ve got a truly unchangeable beingness present but I inactive person counselling due to the fact that of worldly with the band, adjacent now, 23 years later.

It doesn’t look similar grounds labels person learned from their mistakes.

They’re surely looking aft your wealth but they’re not looking aft you.

FIVE, which Scott rejoined successful 2013, are connected the Kubix Arena Tour successful December with 911 and East 17.