Robbie Williams hits out at ex-Take That manager's drug claims in new documentary

Louis Theroux's bombshell documentary Boybands Forever shows members of 90s boybands sermon the effect the brutal euphony manufacture had connected them, dragging up aged struggle for some

Robbie Williams has spectacularly deed retired astatine erstwhile manager Nigel Martin-Smith who accused him of overplaying his difficulties with substance abuse.

The 50-year-old roseate to fame successful boyband Take That with Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Jason Orange and Howard Donald. Robbie and his erstwhile manager some appeared successful Louis Theroux's caller Boybands Forever documentary.

The amusement delves deeper into the boyband improvement of the 90s and yet however it impacted the intelligence wellness of those involved. But successful a bombshell unfastened missive posted connected his Instagram account, Robbie goes successful connected Nigel, responding to immoderate of the claims made connected the BBC three-parter.

Robbie urges Nigel to instrumentality immoderate accountability erstwhile it comes to the attraction of the men, who were teenagers erstwhile helium archetypal took them on. He starts: "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.

"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." Using immoderate of Nigel's comments directly, Robbie addresses them 1 by one.

He says: "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. 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."

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

He past lists his chap Take That members and the issues they faced: "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."

In effect to Nigel's assertion successful the amusement that Robbie "blamed him for his cause taking and behaving similar a w****r", the vocalist replies: "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."

Robbie ends the almighty aboriginal with: "Nigel, I bash emotion you, but sadly, it's besides existent that I don't similar you. The 2 I americium coming to find aren't mutually exclusive," earlier urging fans not to spell aft Nigel, signing off: "Hugs, Rob x"

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