Robbie Williams, honest with fans. « I mask him well … he frightens me »
British singer Robbie Williams told fans that selfie requests cause ‘discomfort’ and ‘panic’, after being approached by several people during a recent flight, reports PA Media/DPA on Friday.
The interpreter of the hit ‘Let me Entertain You’, 51 years old, has a well -documented history of depression and has also fought with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as agoraphobia – which, he says, often stuck at home.
Williams wrote 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 a ‘wave of anxiety, because then the entire cabin would have begun to wonder 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 with people they know well – fills me with discomfort, confessed the singer.
‘I mask him well. But social interaction still frightens me. So much that I haven’t been out in the city for years. And I had to do it without drugs or drink. It seemed impossible before. Now I’m … OK. But I’m still terrifying inside. Every time a stranger approaches – and they are strangers – I panic.
He urged the fans to respect the dignity of privacy, 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’.
