Robbie Williams discusses mental health struggles as he details similarities between himself and his former X Factor mentee Liam Payne following his shock death

Robbie Williams has paid tribute to Liam Payne, revealing the pair battled related ‘trials and tribulations’ two days after singer’s stunning dying aged 31. 

The previous Take That singer. 50, stated he nonetheless had his demons when he was Liam’s age and all the time thought he would fall sufferer to his personal psychological well being battles.  

Robbie additionally shared a candy a textual content message exchanged between the pair, after first assembly when he mentored One Path on the X Consider 2010.

Liam died after falling from the third ground of the Casa Sur Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, after jetting into the nation to see Niall Horan’s live performance.

Prior to now Robbie has been very open about his ongoing battle with psychological sickness and his historical past of melancholy and nervousness. 

In his 2023 Netflix documentary he reflecting on his ‘insane’ fame on the peak of his profession leading to a ‘nervous, psychological breakdown in entrance of hundreds of individuals’. 

Robbie fondly remembered his time mentoring the group on the ITV expertise present branding all of them ‘cheeky and beautiful’

The Let Me Entertain You singer, 50, additionally shared a candy a  2022 textual content message exchanged between the pair, after first assembly when he mentored One Path on the X Consider 2010 

Robbie shared a heartbreaking tribute alongside a snap of the 2022 textual content messages the place the late star thanked him for his assist. 

Throughout the trade Liam admitted he was ‘nervous as hell’ however gave the Angels hitmaker his phrase that he would not again out.

Gushing Robbie replied: ‘Very pleased with you, large!’. 

Whereas the explanation for Liam’s nerves are unknown, in 2022 he entered rehab in Louisiana after ‘hitting all-time low’ following an notorious podcast look the place he criticised his former bandmates and claimed his first solo single ‘outsold’ the remainder of the group’s debuts.

He later stated he ‘got here throughout actually big-headed’ and that ‘it was onerous for me to observe again’ however that in a approach it had ‘saved my life’ by inflicting him to hunt assist. 

In his tribute Robbie penned: ‘The best way to make sense of the Liam Payne tragedy? Clearly, my first emotions in the direction of his passing have been like everybody else. Shock, disappointment and confusion. And to be sincere as I write these phrases that’s the place I nonetheless am’.

‘I met the boys on The X Issue and ‘’mentored’’ them. I take advantage of the phrase mentored in inverted brackets cos I hardly did something to be sincere. I simply frolicked with them. They have been all cheeky and beautiful. I loved the sunshine hearted p*** takery and considered all of the instances I used to be that cheeky p*** takers with the Popstars that had gone earlier than me after I was in Take That’.

He continued: ‘Our paths have crossed ever since that day and I’m fond of all of them. Liam’s trials and tribulations have been similar to mine, so it made sense to achieve out and supply what I may. So I did’.

Robbie described his emotions after studying  of Liam’s tragic dying as ‘Shock, disappointment and confusion’

Liam died after falling from the third ground of the Casa Sur Lodge in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday, after jetting into the nation to see Niall Horan ‘s live performance (pictured in March) 

Unhappy: Robbie  beforehand revealed he went into rehab in 2007 after taking pace, acid, heroin, cocaine and ‘heart-stopping’ quantities of prescribed drugs (pictured in 1996)

He penned: ‘The best way to make sense of the Liam Payne tragedy? Clearly, my first emotions in the direction of his passing have been like everybody else’

‘I suppose in these moments it’s price repeating – WE DON’T KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. WHAT PAIN THEY’RE GOING THROUGH AND WHAT MAKES THEM BEHAVE IN THE WAY THAT THEY BEHAVE’.

‘BEFORE WE REACH TO JUDGEMENT, A BIT OF SLACK NEEDS TO BE GIVEN’.

‘BEFORE YOU TYPE ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET, HAVE A THINK ‘’DO I REALLY NEED TO PUBLISH THIS?’’, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT YOU’RE DOING. YOU’RE PUBLISHING YOUR THOUGHTS FOR ANYBODY TO READ. EVEN IF YOU DON’T REALLY THINK THAT CELEBRITIES OR THEIR FAMILIES EXIST. THEY F****** DO. SKIN AND BONE AND IMMENSELY SENSITIVE’.

‘I nonetheless had my demons at 31. I relapsed. I used to be in ache. I used to be in ache as a result of I relapsed.I relapsed due to a mess of painful causes. I bear in mind Heath Ledger passing and considering ‘’I’m subsequent’’. By the grace of god and/or dumb luck I’m nonetheless right here’. 

Robbie went on: ‘The web will sadly stick with it being the web. The media will sadly stick with it being the media and fame will stick with it being fame’.

‘As people although we now have the ability to vary ourselves. We could be kinder. We could be extra empathic. We are able to at the least attempt to be extra compassionate in the direction of ourselves, our household, our mates, strangers in life and strangers on the web. Even well-known strangers want your compassion’.

Earlier than including: ‘What a Good-looking Proficient boy. What a tragic painful loss for his mates, household, followers and by the appears to be like of the vitality this second has created – The World. Be Type’.

From 2006 to 2009, Williams battled agoraphobia. The social nervousness dysfunction left him housebound for 3 years.

He has beforehand revealed he went into rehab in 2007 after taking pace, acid, heroin, cocaine and ‘heart-stopping’ quantities of prescribed drugs.

Liam was outspoken about how the worldwide fame of One Path modified his life and affected his relationship with medicine and alcohol, as soon as admitting: ‘I do not know if I’ve hit all-time low but.’

Talking to Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO Podcast in 2021, Liam, admitted: ‘I used to be anxious how far my all-time low was going to be. The place’s all-time low for me? And you’d by no means have seen it. I am superb at hiding it’.

‘I do not even know if I’ve hit it but. I can both make that selection now and decide my final second as my all-time low or I could make a complete new low.’

He admitted he had suffered for years with ‘social nervousness’ and ‘stress’ from being well-known, and mentioned the strain his psychological well being was beneath without having the liberty to go wherever as a boyband member. 

The Wolverhampton teenager first auditioned for the X Issue aged 14 earlier than returning two years later when One Path was shaped.

The pair had related begins to their profession with Robbie (L) additionally discovering fame in boy band Take That earlier than happening superstardom and to battles with dependancy (pictured 1992) 

Whereas Liam was outspoken about how the worldwide fame of One Path modified his life and affected his relationship with medicine and alcohol (pictured 2011) 

Robbie (proper) famously embraced a wild life-style as soon as leaving the band (Pictured with Liam Gallagher in 1996) 

They grew to become one of many greatest pop teams on this planet however six years after they have been shaped, with greater than 20 million albums offered, the band have been positioned on indefinite hiatus.

The band have revealed how they went straight from The X Issue to stardom, with Liam recalling how his dad instructed him in the course of the construct as much as the December X Issue last ‘do not come residence till Christmas the day that I left for the present and I by no means got here residence.’

Marking One Path’s tenth anniversary in 2020, Payne shared a screenshot of a textual content message he despatched to his father on the day he joined the group, studying: ‘I am in a boyband.’

‘What a journey… I had no thought what we have been in for after I despatched this textual content to my dad years in the past at this precise time the band was shaped,’ he stated.

Liam had lately talked about his journey to sobriety, and the way his ingesting started when the worldwide mania for the boyband meant they have been typically caught in resort rooms, the place alcohol was available.

Liam recalled how his dad instructed him in the course of the construct as much as the December X Issue last ‘do not come residence till Christmas the day that I left for the present and I by no means got here residence’ (pictured on the present aged 16)

He admitted he had suffered for years with ‘social nervousness’ and ‘stress’ from being well-known, and mentioned the strain his psychological well being was beneath (pictured in 2023)

He instructed Stephen Bartlett on the Diary Of The CEO Podcast: ‘It feels to me, like after we have been within the band. The easiest way to safe us was to lock us in our rooms, and what’s within the room? A mini-bar.

‘So I had a party-for-one that appeared to hold on for a few years of my life, and then you definately look again at how lengthy you have been ingesting? And Jesus Christ that is a very long time, even for somebody as younger as I’m.’

In a number of interviews Liam defined how he’d used alcohol to deal with each the large success of One Path and their subsequent break up, telling Males’s Well being Australia in 2019 that ‘it is tough when you’ve the extent of fame that we had within the band.’

‘There have been lots of people in hassle with psychological well being that are not actually getting the assistance that they want, and I feel that is a little bit of an issue in our trade,’ 

‘It is the identical s**t that occurs to everybody, that is been occurring because the ’70s. You understand what the traps are and if you’re fortunate sufficient, like me, to have the ability to get out of that state of affairs and again into a way of normality, then you already know it’s kind of completely different.’

Liam went onto evaluate happening stage and out in public to ‘placing the Disney costume on,’ admitting: ‘I used to be [drunk] numerous the time as a result of there was no different approach to get your head round what was happening’. 

‘I imply, it was enjoyable. We had an absolute blast, however there have been sure elements of it the place it simply obtained just a little bit poisonous.’