The former Take That member details the struggles he was facing when he started seeing Ayda Field while battling his addictions during his heyday as a musician.
- Nov 12, 2023
AceShowbiz - Robbie Williams nearly split from Ayda Field whilst he was suffering a relapse. The "Angels" hitmaker, 49, and his now-wife didn't think they had anything "in common" with each other when they first met at a party, but that quickly changed once they started having a "laugh" and she started "really liking" Robbie "a lot" when he started opening about his struggles.
"She came over to my house after being at a party. I just saw off my dealer that I was sleeping with at the time," Robbie recalled in his self-titled tell-all four-parter for Netflix. Ayda, 44, remembered, "The house is completely f***ing dark. No candles. I'm like this is f***ing weird. So we're sitting there, we have nothing in common."
Robbie continued, "I was like, 'Oh this is not working out. I better take her back to the party where she has come from.' " Ayda said, "Unbeknownst to me, Rob was actually going to ditch me at this party! I guess we start, maybe because we surrendered to the fact we were not each other's person, and this was a total mess. We were just completely loose with each other and we were saying funny s*** in the car. And I was like, 'Oh he's funny!' "
Robbie decided he would stay at the party after all, adding, "I was like, 'Oh I'll come in for five minutes.' " Ayda said, "And there was just this moment when we were laughing. I cannot even tell you what was happening, the universe opened up."
Robbie recalled, "I had this moment where I felt like I had known her forever." However, he disappeared for a while after going to the toilet and Ayda decided to find out where he was. Ayda said, "I'm waiting, I'm like, 'God is he taking a dump?' " Robbie admitted, "I then did some coke. I got this tic."
Ayda found Robbie in a dreadful state and the pair left and went home together. She said, "There he was, pacing, clucking, I was like, 'we gotta go.' " Whilst looking after Robbie, Ayda realised the "Rock DJ" hitmaker was her "soulmate."
Robbie said, "She ended up coming home and nursing me." Ayda added, "We stayed up talking. He explained he had been sober for a very long time. He had just relapsed. It was like my entryway into addiction…"
"I remember that being very scary. I was really liking this person a lot. Here was this incredibly troubled soul, a rock star in another country and f***ed up about it and a complete mess and so my person. Like my f***ing soulmate."
The pair went on to tie the knot in 2010 and share four children together.
