Robbie Williams says he is struggling to deal with his parents being ill. The singer, 50, told last month how his mother Janet has been diagnosed with dementia whilst his father Pete has Parkinson's disease. Robbie said: "The truth is that I'm very busy and I'm not dealing with the situation as I should. I don't really know how to do it, it's an incredibly complicated thing. But I prefer not to go into details... You know, if I say something, they might read it, and then I would have to answer a lot of questions. Let's put it this way: we are all human beings, with our difficulties, and I am trying to deal with mine."
In November Robbie spoke for the first time about Janet's illness. Speaking as he promoted his new film Better Man ihe told how it depicts his loving relationship with his late grandmother who has dementia in the film.
At the time Robbie said: "My mum's currently got dementia - like my nan in the film - and my dad's got Parkinsons and can't get out of bed. So I'm in a different part of my life right now."
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@poppapete299)In a new interview Robbie also suggested the biggest gamble of his life was getting married to wife Ayda because he was worried about cheating on her and losing half his fortune.
Speaking in Vanity Fair Italy, he explained: The biggest gamble of my life? Marrying my wife, I couldn't keep my p*nis in my pants. In Italy I was considered the bad guy who destroyed Take That. But it's not true Getting married was more or less a way of embracing a monogamous lifestyle.
"And I also knew that I could lose half of everything I had earned. That’s why, in practical terms, that was the biggest gamble. But the other one was dreaming. Where I come from, these things don’t happen to people like me.
"And until you dream them, until you try… the Swing When You’re Winning album, Rudebox, the videos, the things I say in interviews, on talk shows: they’re all gambles. Any one of them could have been a total disaster or a success.”
Speaking about his dad's diagnosis in 2020 during Lockdown for covid, Robbie said: “We've got a lot of family issues right now, my dad has got Parkinson's, my mother-in-law who I love dearly has got a very big illness, we can't get to them. My dad is thousands and thousands of miles away. My mum is just a year short of 80 and she's in isolation and I can see the things whirling in her mind and her eyes going. We have a brand new baby Beau, four children in total.”
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