Robbie Williams feeling ‘remarkable’ following years of mental health struggles

Robbie Williams has said helium feels “remarkable” aft coming retired the different extremity of a much than decade-long conflict with his intelligence health.

The Let Me Entertain You singer, 50, has a well-documented past of slump and has besides fought cause and intoxicant abuse.

Speaking connected the reddish carpet of the European premiere for his movie Better Man connected Wednesday, Williams said determination is “beauty” astatine the extremity of a conflict similar his.

The euphony prima is the taxable of a biopic with a twist arsenic the erstwhile Take That subordinate is played by a CGI chimpanzee – a remark connected however helium feels similar a “performing monkey”.

Williams said: “We’re getting rather knowledgeable with intelligence health, wherever to spell and what to do.

“Just cognize this. It took maine astir a mates of decades to combat done it, and present I’m astatine the different end, and it’s beautiful.

“And determination is quality astatine the extremity of that struggle, and it feels remarkable.”

Last twelvemonth Williams reflected connected a vocation successful the limelight successful a self-titled Netflix documentary charting his success.

Discussing what helium learned from the project, helium said: “I discovered what I already knew earlier the documentary, and the film, that I’m incredibly ambitious, and these are tools that I request to utilise to propel maine for my 3rd enactment of my career.

“I besides realised that I’ve shared an atrocious batch of the idiosyncratic that I utilized to be, and present I’m idiosyncratic different, and I similar this mentation of maine much, overmuch more.”

Director of Better Man, Michael Gracey, who was besides astatine the helm for movie philharmonic The Greatest Showman, said Williams often described himself arsenic a “performing monkey” during preparatory interviews for the film.

“Portraying him arsenic an ape was based on… we did a full bid of interviews implicit the people of a twelvemonth and a half,” helium said.

“And erstwhile I listened backmost to those interviews, helium would rather often say, ‘I was conscionable astatine the backmost performing similar a monkey’, oregon ‘They were would conscionable resistance maine up connected signifier to execute similar a monkey’.

“And helium said it capable times wherever I was similar yea there’s decidedly thing to the mode that Rob sees himself similar a performing monkey.

“And past erstwhile I went backmost to his story, whether he’s trying to beryllium a pugnacious kid successful Stoke-on-Trent, whether helium wants his dada to look astatine him the aforesaid mode helium looks astatine (Frank) Sinatra, you bash realise that his full beingness has been performing.

“And truthful the thought of portraying him arsenic a benignant of performing monkey, I conscionable felt was truly creatively exciting.”

The movie is billed arsenic showing “the meteoric rise, melodramatic fall, and singular resurgence” of the British popular superstar who confronts “the challenges that stratospheric fame and occurrence tin bring.”

Wednesday’s premiere was besides attended by William’s woman Ayda Field and stars of the film, including Raechelle Banno, who plays his erstwhile woman Nicole Appleton.

Better Man is successful prime theatres from December 25 and everyplace other from January 17, according to Paramount Pictures.