Robbie Williams and the success that is a drug: the preview clip of the Netflix documentary

CSometimes you want success so much that, once you achieve it, you just want to go back and be invisible again. Robbie Williams he chased that success and desired it but, when he began to no longer be able to leave home and was pressured on what he would say or sing on stage, he started to think it would be nice to get rid of it, considering that, as he has explained several times, fame is capable of creating an addiction more destructive and lethal than drugs. Robbie Williamsthe documentary produced by Asif Kapadia directed by Joe Pearlman and available on Netflix from November 8, talks about this: about a 16-year-old boy who becomes a pop star and who, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his solo career, is ready to look inside himself to retrace what he was and what he felt.

In the clip we preview above, for example, Robbie Williams describes with extreme lucidity the toxicity of the relationship he had with success, understood as that process according to which as long as the lights are pointed at you everything will be fine and as soon as they go out everything will lose its meaning. Viewing hundreds of private and unreleased videos from his personal archives for a total of 30 thousand hours of footage, Robbie Williams traces the story of the man behind the star by sending a fundamental message regarding to psychic balance that everyone, including people living in the spotlight, should strive to preserve. In the documentary Robbie Williams reflects on this: about the dizzying heights of stardom and the horrific depths of his struggles with addiction and poor mental health; about the hunger to have everything immediately and the destruction that follows.

Despite having performed in 2003 in front of 360 thousand people at Knebworth and despite having slept with numerous women – many of whom were fans – Robbie Williams explains, with the clarity of his almost 50 years, that not all that glitters is gold, retracing particularly unpleasant episodes such as the panic attack which he had on stage at the Roundhay Partk in Leeds in 2006. The hope is that these four episodes can help the public understand that no one is invincible and that no one can do it alone – Robbie, for example, was lucky enough to have at his alongside his current wife Ayda Field as well as his former companions Take That, essential to ensure that he regained control of his life after the addictions were dragging him into the abyss.
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