ROBBIE WILLIAMS REVEALS ELTON JOHN FORCED HIM TO GO TO REHAB

Robbie Williams has revealed that he was forced to go to rehab by Elton John after he turned up to his house following a drinking bender. The singer, 45, opened up about his darker days during an interview on the Jonathan Ross show and revealed that the Rocketman singer helped him turn his life around.

Robbie admitted his stint in rehab came as he was recording the vocals for some of his biggest tracks including Angels and Let Me Entertain You on his first album.

He said: ‘He really tried to help. In the early days when I was first getting sober, there was a week until I had to go to Rehab and I had two vocals to do on my first album, one of them was ‘Angels’ and one of them was ‘Let Me Entertain You.’ ‘I was going to do these vocals then go to Rehab. Elton invited me to his house to listen to the work that I’d done so far.

That morning I got in a black cab and I had this game that I used to play where I’d stop at every pub I saw and have half a pint.‘i’d had ten half pints before I’d got to the studio. I ended up under the mixing desk, had a bit of red wine and then I knew I had to get to Elton’s for three o’clock.’ Robbie said that when he arrived at Elton’s house and the singer opened the door he was covered in food and red wine stains following his boozy afternoon. When he arrived Elton insisted he went to rehab now, but Robbie recalled telling the pop icon: ‘I can’t go to Rehab now, I’m going next week.’ ‘He said, “No you’ve got to go to Rehab now” and I said, “I’ve got to go to Rehab now” and this kept going back and forth at the door.’ Refusing to take no for an answer, Elton took a drunk Robbie to his house in Windsor and put him up for the night and set up arrangements for rehab.

Robbie recalled: ‘I wake up but I haven’t opened my eyes and there’s a knock on my shoulder and I look and there’s… Elton and David Furnish and a doctor and a psychiatrist and they are here to take me away.’

“I wake up but I haven’t opened my eyes and there’s a knock on my shoulder and I look and there’s… Elton and David Furnish and a doctor and a psychiatrist and they are here to take me away”

Robbie admitted his stint in rehab came as he was recording the vocals for some of his biggest tracks