Robbie Williams left concerned as his mum struggles with new illness amid dad's Parkinson's battle

Robbie Williams has revealed his mum is struggling with a caller illness, which follows connected from his dada surviving with Parkinson's illness for the past 4 years

Singer Robbie Williams has revealed his parent Janet has been diagnosed with dementia. The bittersweet wellness quality comes 4 years aft the vocalist revealed his dada Pete has Parkinson's disease.

The singer, 50, discussed the diagnosis successful notation to his upcoming biopic Better Man which depicts his loving narration with his precocious grandma who has dementia successful the film. Speaking to Hello! Magazine, Robbie said: "My mum's presently got dementia - similar my nan successful the movie - and my dad's got Parkinsons and can't get retired of bed. So I'm successful a antithetic portion of my beingness close now."

He added: "We're each survivors of puerility trauma, and you walk the 2nd 20 years of your life, sorting retired the archetypal 20 years. Why did I privation to consciousness existent love? And each of my songs are autobiographical, truthful I conjecture it's each astir processing the events that happened erstwhile I was younger and the events that inactive transportation on. So it would marque consciousness that it would beryllium cinematic successful immoderate way, due to the fact that I spoke the story, I sang the story. And I cognize that this volition interaction a batch of people."

The vocalist has been helping different household members with their wellness issues for immoderate time. In May 2020 Robbie told however helium had been struggling to header successful lockdown arsenic helium and woman Ayda Field are dealing with a fig of household problems during lockdown due to the fact that Ayda's parent Gwen is besides surviving with a "big illness", having antecedently been revealed to person Parkinson's and Lupus.

Speaking astir his dad's diagnosis successful 2020, Robbie said: “We've got a batch of household issues close now, my dada has got Parkinson's, my mother-in-law who I emotion dearly has got a precise large illness, we can't get to them. My dada is thousands and thousands of miles away. My mum is conscionable a twelvemonth abbreviated of 80 and she's successful isolation and I tin spot the things whirling successful her caput and her eyes going. We person a marque caller babe Beau, 4 children successful total.”

Earlier this year, Robbie revealed helium has "written loads of songs" and is feeling much "ambitious" than ever.

He told Virgin Radio: "I’ve got loads of plans. I’ve written loads of songs, I’ve got my movie [Better Man] astatine the extremity of this twelvemonth and I’m doing Hyde Park successful the summer. I person ne'er been busier, I’ve ne'er been arsenic ambitious arsenic I americium close now. I americium afloat of purpose, and I americium loving life.”

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