Robbie Williams hits back at former Take That manager over ‘gaslighting’

Robbie Williams has sent a lengthy unfastened missive to erstwhile Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith implicit comments astir his struggles with addiction.

Both the Rock DJ hitmaker and his ex-manager look successful the caller BBC documentary Boybands Forever, discussing the dark broadside of boybands.

The brace were publically astatine likelihood passim their clip moving together, with Robbie infamously leaving the radical successful 1995 connected a less-than-positive note.

Nigel’s comments successful the caller documentary haven’t gone down good with the Angels singer, who said his ex-manager was denying his ‘trauma’.

‘He’s smart, is Robbie and it’s rather clever,’ Nigel said successful the documentary, claiming the vocalist blamed the set and him for his atrocious behaviour.

On Instagram, the Better Man star addressed the comments successful a amazingly polite message, opening with: ‘Hope each is bully successful your satellite and beingness is being benignant to you.’

After apologising for immoderate wounded Robbie caused astatine the time, helium said helium had a ‘deep admiration’ for Nigel’s enactment and however ‘powerful’ helium is but wasn’t going to fto immoderate things lie.

Robbie continued: ‘I bash nevertheless instrumentality objection to your mentation of my truth. In modern parlance, to contradict someone’s lived acquisition these days is called Gaslighting.

‘Your young complaint astatine this clip successful his beingness was experiencing his archetypal [mental breakdown]. You didn’t excel successful “Man Management” and it was present that, alternatively of a stern wod and a pointed finger, an limb astir the enarthrosis and a benignant connection would person been the champion tact.

‘It is not good for maine that my trauma astatine the clip being represented arsenic a figment of my imaginativeness oregon a instrumentality to ingratiate myself with a gullible wide public.’

Robbie was ‘equal parts terrified and excited’ to beryllium sharing a surface with Nigel again, however, helium appears to consciousness helium was misrepresented by his erstwhile manager.

He said: ‘As it happens, it would look that clip has done its happening 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, though.’

In the note, Robbie states they person not spoken since the 90s but hoped that Nigel would person grown successful that clip and been capable to bespeak connected mistakes made.

He quotes Nigel from the documentary, successful which helium said Robbie considers him an ‘evil t**t’ and that it was ‘all his responsibility [Robbie] was behaving similar a w**ker’.

The Patience vocalist responded: ‘My cause taking was ne'er your fault. My effect to the warped satellite that surrounded maine is solely my own. How I chose to self-medicate is and was thing that I volition beryllium monitoring and dealing with for the full of my life. It’s portion of my constitution and I would person the aforesaid malady had I been a taxi driver.

‘I conscionable got determination quicker owed to having the finances portion trying successful vain to counteract the turbulence of popular stardom’s matrix-bending washing machine.’

Robbie explains that a ‘pattern’ wherever young performers articulation a boyband but go ‘sick’ aft their emergence to fame.

‘Some are fortunate done a bid of self-examinations and assistance to flooded their experience,’ helium wrote. ‘Some ne'er rather negociate to untangle the messiness of the wreckage of the past.’

In a brutal reminder, Robbie shared immoderate of the intelligence wellness issues faced by set members including suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and addictions.

He notes that ‘whatever’ the interaction was connected Jason was ‘so achy helium can’t adjacent beryllium portion of it’ anymore.

Robbie continued: ‘I’m not breaking anyone’s anonymity by sharing the broadside effects of boyband dysphoria that subordinate to conscionable america lads. I volition besides punctual you that the idiosyncratic acting similar a “w***er” 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.’

In a nonstop changeable astatine Nigel, the Feel hitmaker said helium does ‘not travel crossed arsenic a relatable character’ and needs a ‘glow-up wherever redeemable features are concerned’.

He added: ‘It’s OK to admit your shortcomings. No 1 is going to writer you for not knowing oregon understand[ing] the intelligence effects everything was having connected everyone.’

Robbie signed disconnected by wishing the champion connected Nigel and asking fans to dainty his erstwhile manager with respect and care.

Boybands Forever is connected BBC subordinate now.

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