British singer Robbie Williams spoke about the difficulties they face in interactions with fans, revealing that requests to make selfie causes “discomfort” and “anxiety”. The confession comes after the artist was approached by several passengers during a recent flight, reports PA Media/DPA on Friday.
Robbie Williams spoke about the discomfort felt around Facebook photo fans
The 51 -year -old artist has a well -documented history of depression and has also fought with drugs and alcohol abuse, as well as Agorafobia – who, he says, often blocked at home, writes Agerpres.
Williams revealed on Instagram that during an internal flight in the US, when he had not slept for a long time, he was approached by a fan who wrote a “wonderful ticket”, praising the documentary Netflix detailing his fight with celebrity.
In a long message, he revealed that he told the person that the selfies would cause him a “wave of anxiety, because then the whole cabin would have begun to ask” who he is.
Several requests arrived – another person sent him a ticket, and another passenger made him feel “forced” after he approached him and asked for the photo directly, according to Williams.
“Each interaction – with strangers or even people they know well – it fills me with discomfort. I mask it well. But the social interaction still frightens me. So much that I haven’t left the city for years. And I had to do it without drugs or drink. It seemed impossible before. Now I am … OK. But I’m still terrifying inside. Every time a stranger approaches – and they are strangers – I panic“Robbie Williams wrote.
He urged the fans to respect the “dignity of private life, desires and needs of celebrities”, because it could be “on the phone with his mother, talking about his dementia” or “thinking of his father’s Parkinson’s disease.”
Speaking of the documentary Netflix “Robbie Williams” in 2023, he told the news agency that the series is about the return of “power” and focuses on depression and other problems. “The most revealing aspects are mental health disorders, addictions, agoraphobia, bodily dysmorphia, dyslexia and disccquelity,” he said.
In November 2024, the singer said he was feeling “wonderful” after leaving a fight for more than a decade with mental health problems.
