Take That caused my alien obsession
Robbie Williams is living the bizarre life of a hermit in California, pursuing his obsession with extraterrestrials.
While his former Take That bandmates busily plan their next album on the back of two Brit awards this year, Robbie’s taking part in a Radio 4 show about ETs, set to air at 6.30pm on 6 May. He explains his interest by saying: ‘I think that joining Take That was like leaving on a spaceship and coming back, with all your friends going: “He’s weird now.”’ Until just before Christmas, Robbie had an active social life revolving around his beloved amateur football team LA Vale and constantly had friends round to his mansion.
Now the team have disbanded over a row about money and the star who seemed to have it all has plunged into something of a loner’s existence, with no sign of a new record after the failure of Rudebox and a string of increasingly strange obsessions and friendships. He sleeps during the day in his LA home in the quiet Mulholland Estates and is active at night. His nocturnal existence is one of the reasons for his interest in space and the night sky.
‘Robbie doesn’t have any structure in his life when he isn’t working,’ says a friend. ‘He’s quite sensitive, so the attacks on Rudebox hurt him. Although he won’t admit it, the criticism’s made him scared of releasing more records.’ During a radio interview the 34-year-old singer told Joss Stone that he believes he’s been visited by UFOs three times, including one occasion when he claims he was bathed in gold light while lying on his sunlounger at night. His friend says: ‘Robbie knows people will think he’s mad, but he doesn’t care. He really believes this stuff.’
Robbie’s mother was always interested in the paranormal and her stories scared him as a child. ‘She talked about spirits and ghosts,’ he’s said. ‘Maybe that’s why I want to investigate UFOs so I can work out why I get scared at night.’
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Life as a goth would sit RW better I reckon!…come over to the darkside RW, we’ve got cookies!…joking aside, everyone has their beliefs and lets face it we all love an eccentric millionaire, recluses are brilliant because we can let our imaginations run wild about em!
I’m a night owl, I dont have to be up in the day so I end up staying up half the night, nowt wrong with that, if the bloke is happy then so what? he’s not hurting anyone, he’s minding his own and doing his own thing, no one has to pay any attention to any of it.
I havent stuck my head into RW-land for years, no idea what the fellas been up to, however, although my taste in music changed and his direction in music changed…both in totally opposing directions….(you cant please all of the people all of the time!)…I’m quite glad to see that he didnt just become some boring hollywood twat with a personality transplant.
If he never sings another note outside of his bathroom again and turns in to some howard huges type figure, I’m sure he’d still find amusement & have a chuckle at all the things the press would ‘assume’ he’s getting up to!
…besides I cant stand all those ‘sanctimonious’ (sorry cant spell the bloody word can just about say it) pop stars who go all political once their careers as musicans take a tumble, at least what he’s ‘allegedly’ into seems to be something of a deep seated interest to him and not a band wagon he’s jumped on.
Robbie Williams is definitely not the only person to be wrestling with obsession with regards to the UFO phenomena and possible extraterrestrial visitation. For some reason, over the last few years, I have increasingly experienced a pull, a need, to know more about space and in particular, our own human heritage. There are many of us. Though most tend to remain quiet about it.
This is a real and potentially very important phenomena. It is certainly not the playground of the lunatic fringe, or for people who are basically one wave short of a ship wreck, despite the fact that our news media constantly paints us as such. Mr. Williams is unfortunate in that he is a known figure, with little or no privacy. Anything he does that is perceived as left of center will be zeroed in on an promptly ridiculed.
Anyone who actually bothers to read information correctly researched, who spends time joining the dots in this celestial mystery and who also analyzes official NASA imagery will reach an informed conclusion that SOMETHING is definitely afoot and that we, the plebeian masses, have been kept in the dark. Kept in the dark from knowing about a subject that is perhaps THE most important issue of our time: The real history of the human race. Our evolution, devolution and the current re-emergence of our species. Think I’m crazy? Go to the NASA website/Apollo archive. Download out photographs from the Apollo 14/15/16 missions and TAKE TIME looking at those images. ALL of them. STUDY them and you will reach, as I have, a conclusion that I’m not at ease with. Which is, that we have all been lied to…
I believe, in the end, the joke won’t be on Robbie Williams, but on everyone else.
jeremy howell
studio city, ca
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