Robbie Williams gets brutally honest about what happened when he left Take That in his latest documentary, admitting that he spent a lot of time taking class A drugs in a London members club after he quit the band.
The singer, now 49, was just 16 years old when he joined the group alongside Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Howard Donald.
In the first episode of his self-titled Netflix series, Robbie recalls the early days of the band – when he faced a "complete dunking into the grown up world that I wasn’t ready for" – before turning his attention what happened when he quit in 1995.
Robbie left Take That when they threatened to go on tour without him if he refused to stop partying, and he immediately headed for London's raucous celebrity hotspots after his exit. “I was just in [private members club] The Groucho doing a lot of coke,” he says sadly.Thankfully, Robbie met struggling musician Guy Chambers and they wrote his debut solo album, Life Thru A Lens, in just 12 days.
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