Robbie Williams - “I’m taking the weight loss jabs. I didn’t qualify, but I’m a celebrity”
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In the UK. Now, Robbie Williams, welcome to the show. Uh Brendan,
lovely to speak to
you. How you doing, mate? I'm good.
How does Robbie describe his early struggle with imposter syndrome?
How are you, Robbie?
I am pretty decent. Can't complain, but I'm sure that if we workshopped something together, we'd come up with something to complain about. Okay,
let's let's see how we can pick this apart here. So look, we'll start with some positives. You're coming to Ireland next summer, two nights at Tonement Park in Limerick on july sixth and seventh. And I know that you feel, don't you, that you're at your best ever as a live performer now. I saw you say you're like a dog who's finally grown into his paws. Explain that one to me.
Um, yeah, well there was a hi a hideous amount of um uh what's that word called? The the uh the way you don't b believe that you should be where you are. What's that thing? Imposter syndrome. Yeah, yeah, sorry, my brain's not working. Huge amount of imposter syndrome, a huge amount of, you know, I I was in a boy band and I'm just lucky to be here and how dare I and who do I think I am, thinking that I am somebody that I I I can't be, etc. etc. etc. And then uh you sort of shed skins as you get older. And uh I think that something that has enabled me to love what I do and where I am is to understand exactly how lucky and how grateful I am to be where I am doing what I do. And I have the the best job in the world.
And I've sort of shed that skin where I um hate myself and feel as though I don't deserve it, and just am inhabiting what's in front of me, which is invariably ninety eight percent of the time, a bunch of incredibly kind and compassionate and empathic loving people that are beaming back to me that they're enjoying what I'm doing. So yeah, that's where I'm at
When did you have that breakthrough?
Um when my daughter arrived thirteen years ago and you know my my I I I thought when I was growing up that being famous and being successful uh in the entertainment industry was gonna be a fix all. I thought that if I go and do this then, you know, maybe I won't hurt as much and maybe I won't be as sensitive as much and it fixes everything. I didn't But so when that didn't arrive it became my conscious thought. It's like oh this hasn't fixed anything, it's ruined everything. And then, you know, my daughter arrived and it stopped being this place that I was looking to fix me and it started to be my job. And because it's my job and I gotta work for her and for them, I then started to have so much gratitude for my job being the best job in the world.
And uh, you know, baby steps and uh uh and then huge jumps and huge leaps and now I'm fifty-two and I realize what I've got. And I realised what's in front of me and not this other reality that my brain was trying to create for me.
Do does that other part of you though still need the adulation of a stadium full of people?
Um well, I wouldn't like it if it went away 'cause I've become accustomed to it. You know, it it's uh it's who am I without all of the trimmings? You know, uh I I wouldn't I mean I touch wood that I never have to have that ego death. It's the equivalent of saying, you know, it's the i is it the ego and is it the adulation or is it just like wherever you are in your life, would you like to now be less successful at it? No, I don't think any on buddy on the planet, yeah, you know, whether it would be, you know, an incredibly competent bin collector would like to be not a competent bin collector, you know, I w whatever, you know Yeah.
And Robbie, does
it still do the job though, like a stadium full of people loving you? Does it still give you that buzz, yeah?
Yeah, well I mean o obviously it's it's it's all it's a bunch of things, you know, 'cause I I did Crown Park and it was like probably the best audience that I I I I can remember. That was last year. And like I I remember being on stage thinking, what do I now do with this? Because in forty five minutes I'm gonna be eating prong. Cocktail Pringles out of a can watching Sky News. Put this. So, you know, the answer to the question isn't really that simple because it's in that moment it it sort of transcends reality and it is everything that you could possibly imagine it would be and more.
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