Robbie Williams calls documentary a ‘trauma watch’: 'It was like watching a crash'
ok.co.ukRobbie Williams has described his new Netflix documentary as a "trauma watch" and revealed it felt like, "watching a crash you were involved in, but in slo-mo".The 49 year old former Take That star told author Caitlin Moran in The Times that making the documentary felt like "enduring your mental illness at a very, very slow pace, over a very, very long time." When asked about his initial hopes for the documentary, the dad-of-four joked: "When I met the Netflix people, the question I had to ask them was, 'Can you polish a t*rd?'" He continued, "I know everyone's got a story, or a t*rd, but I want my particular story, or t*rd, to mean something." "Like, I know everyone's really interested in the trauma aspect and the addiction aspect, but I've always thought, 'Well, there's more to me than that'.
I wanted to break with the form. I need things to be... different from what they were." The documentary format allowed cameras to capture Robbie's reactions as he watched old footage for the first time in years.
Chatting about this experience, the Angels singer shared: "We spoke for 25 days, six-seven hours every day. It was intense. But you have to show it to all the people who just go, 'Oh, it's tomorrow's chip paper', or, 'Nobody believes what they read in the papers', or, 'Brush it off'.
Well, I was incredibly mentally ill." The star also opened up about his mental health diagnoses, saying: "Oh, I've got them all.
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