Robbie Williams: ‘I did an online test to see if I was a narcissist’
telegraph.co.ukpublic journey will be aware that he has long struggled with the gap between the person he feels that he is and the person people perceive him to be, and with all that the life he has chosen requires of him.
For one thing, there is the conundrum that those who don’t know him often find near impossible to believe – that, as he puts it, ‘I am an introvert that does an extrovert’s job for a living.’ But in recent times, he says, things have been going well.
He still has plenty to share about the disjunctions he experiences, but these days such tales are offered more as considered reflections on how things just happen to be and less as urgent updates on an ongoing crisis.‘I was reading something about fame…’ he begins to tell me – and he’s already well aware of how this sounds and how anyone reading this might already be judging him – ‘…and there’s like four stages of fame.
And I can’t remember the first three…’ He laughs at the self-reflexive absurdity of this detail. ‘But the fourth one is acceptance of what’s happened to you.’ His point is: maybe this is where he is now.‘I’m not saying that I’ve reached some Zen-like state at all,’ he clarifies, ‘because I’m still a mass of insecurities, and I’m either everything or nothing at any particular moment.
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