Robbie Williams hits back at ex-Take That manager’s drug claims in boyband documentary saying ‘I don’t like you’

ROBBIE Williams has called retired erstwhile manager Nigel Martin Smith implicit claims helium makes astir the star's cause usage successful caller documentary, Boybands Forever.

The BBC documentary lifts the lid connected beingness astatine the tallness of the 90s boyband era, with erstwhile popular stars talking astir the ups and down of their fame astatine specified a young age.

Among the interviewees is Robbie – who changeable to fame successful Take That alongside Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald – and Nigel Martin-Smith, the band's manager astatine the time.

In a lengthy unfastened missive posted connected Instagram today, Robbie addresses Nigel and respective of the claims helium made successful his interviews.

Among them, helium accuses Robbie of overplaying his intoxicant and cause abuse, with the manager downplaying immoderate relation helium whitethorn person had connected the group's idiosyncratic struggles.

Robbie bluntly tells Nigel successful the missive that helium "loves him" for what helium helped him achieve, but "didn't similar him" – urging the manager to ain up to immoderate work successful what happened to the members.

"I was adjacent parts terrified and excited to beryllium sharing a surface with you again, excited to spot wherever we some are connected this journey, and terrified, successful lawsuit aged emotions would beryllium triggered, and I'd inactive beryllium successful a spot of anger, wounded oregon fear," Robbie wrote.

"As it happened, it would look that clip has done its thing, and I conjecture the contented it brings has taken its mop to a fewer nooks and crannies present and there, I conjecture not each nook has been bleached."

Robbie past uses nonstop quotes Nigel made during the chat, and addresses them 1 by one.

"If you are pursuing the communicative closely, you can't assistance but announcement a signifier emerge. Boys articulation lad band. The set becomes huge. Boys get sick," Robbie continued.

"Some are fortunate done a bid of aforesaid examinations and helped to flooded their experience. Some ne'er rather managed to untangle the messiness of the wreckage of the past."

"I'm not breaking anyone's anonymity by sharing the broadside effects of lad set dysphoria that subordinate to conscionable america lads," helium said. "Everyone has publically enactment this connected record.

"Howard - contemplated termination erstwhile the set ended. Mark - addiction, alcoholism and rehab. Gaz - bulimia. Me - I deliberation that 1 is good documented. And Jason - immoderate effect instrumentality that had connected him is truthful achy helium can't adjacent beryllium portion of it."

To Nigel's assertion successful the doc that Robbie "blamed him for his cause taking and behaving similar a w****r", the vocalist replied: "I volition besides punctual you that the idiosyncratic acting similar a w****r was 16 erstwhile helium joined the set and 21 erstwhile helium left. That was the past clip I saw you.

"I anticipation I person much grace and knowing erstwhile and if immoderate of my ain 4 children astatine specified a susceptible property behave successful the aforesaid manner."

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