Alert – Robbie Williams looks stylish in a blue paisley print gilet as he attends the BAFTA TV screening of his upcoming Netflix documentary with director Joe Pearlman

Robbie Williams opted for a stylish look as he attended the BAFTA TV preview of his upcoming Netflix documentary on Monday.

The Take That singer, 49, took to the stage alongside the limited series’ director Joe Pearlman.

The English pop star sported a catchy blue paisley print sleeveless gilet and a typical newsboy hat.

He completed his look for the occasion with a total black look, as he appeared in his highest spirits.

The hotly-anticipated series, who airs on November 8, is told to uncover the ‘real’ Robbie.

Viewers will be able to get a glimpse into the singer’s mental health as well throughout the addictions, past romance, and the price of fame.

On stage, the Angels hitmaker discussed his explosive four-part docu-series charting his roller-coaster career with film producer Anna Higgs.

The Dark Horse producer also welcomed Joe on stage – known for successful documentaries as Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (2023) and Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022).

The director beamed on stage as he opened up about the making of the pop star’s docu-series.

He sported a navy sweatshirt and matching denim jacket, teamed with black trousers. 

The former Take That sensation has candidly opened up about his darker days and mental health battles as he tried to cope with the enormous fame he experienced.

A year after he embarked on what would turn out to be a hugely successful solo career following his split from the boy band in 1995, he went on a six-day vodka and cocaine binge where he was vomiting ‘black bile’ and didn’t sleep for 144 hours, believing he was ‘indestructible’. 

His drugs and alcohol battle was described by Robbie as a ‘fast track to death’ and has seen him have several stints in rehab, including in 2007 after taking speed, acid, heroin, cocaine and ‘heart-stopping’ amounts of prescription drugs, reported The Sun. 

The English songwriter has previously revealed his ongoing battles with body dysphoria and anorexia, which he discusses in the Netflix show and how one time he was surviving on just one banana a day – while battling anorexia.

His love-life was just as frantic and saw him date a string of high-profile celebrities including Spice Girls Melanie C and Geri Horner, Lindsay Lohan, and All Saints’ Nicole Appleton, while rumours swirled he bedded Kylie Minogue and Nicole Kidman. 

Today, Williams’ life has taken a complete turn and he has channelled his addictive personality into living a healthy lifestyle with his American actress wife Ayda, their four children – Teddy, Charlie, Coco, and Beau – through exercise, art, pickleball – and searching for aliens. 

Gone are the days of drugs and alcohol, with the star, thought to have a net worth of £155 million, instead proudly being 23 years sober.

He has even rubbed shoulders with royalty having attended Princess Eugenie’s wedding to Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle, with his daughter, Teddy, a bridesmaid. 

Asked what caused such a dramatic change, Williams often returns to the same answer: Ayda. 

Appearing on the Jonathan Ross show in 2020, the Angels hitmaker got emotional as he credited her with saving his life. 

‘I look back at 15 years of being with my wife, she did, she gave me a life,’ he said.

‘Here I am on the telly getting emotional. She absolutely did.’

That same year he spoke candidly about his relationship with his wife during an appearance on Jessie and Lennie Ware’s Table Manners podcast.

The singer admitted it makes him want to ‘cry’ when he talks about Ayda as he revealed he feels ‘safe’ with her and their ‘mini tribe’ of children.

He said: ‘It’s a very special thing to have. In a very turbulent, unsafe world, our mini tribe, you know that saying people say “nothing outside can affect you when inside is safe”, and that’s how I feel. Nothing out there can hurt me when I am with her.’ 

But constant reminders of his battles are never too far away, as Ayda still locks away painkillers out of fear he could relapse. 

He told the On The Edge podcast with Andrew Gold: ‘Something’s always lurking around the corner and I still can’t be trusted with pills.

‘The wife has to put them behind lock and key… They can be there for 18 months, every single day. Vicodin, whatever, every day, see them, go to bed.’

He admits it’s lucky he’s still alive, but nowadays Robbie’s life appears calmer, content, and settled.

In one recent Instagram post he wrote: ‘Im not worried about the future. It’s amazing Im still here …

‘My memory being s***,my thoughts being cloudy, my back being full of arthritis, My eyesight going, My looks fading, the elasticity of my skin being f*****, the hair thinning….ect,ect,ect.

‘Im still here ,were still here….Still, so much to do….’

His partying antics have taken a toll on his health, though, with the singer revealing in a recent interview with The Sun how they had left him feeling ‘knackered’. 

‘The hair is thinning, the testosterone has left the building, the serotonin is not really here and the dopamine said goodbye a long time ago,’ he said.

‘I’ve used up all of the natural good stuff. I’ve got the manopause.’

So what does he want to celebrate his 50th? Apparently he’s going to gift himself a £20,000 neck life and some ‘Turkey teeth’ with the star already having had botox. 

As for what else is ahead in the future, the Take That star has previously spoken of his fascination with UFOs and that ‘something is up’ and wants to go on a ‘TV quest’ in search of finding out if there’s anything behind his mental health.

He once lavishly rented out a plane used by rapper Snoop Dogg and asked journalist Jon Ronson to go UFO hunting with him and wanted the documentary-maker to set up a night for him to spend a night in a haunted house in the search for ghosts. He changed his mind on the latter. 

Speaking on Alan Buxton’s podcast in January, he told of how he spotted an ‘penalty box-sized’ unidentified flying object 16 years ago when he was completely sober. 

‘This was flat and it appeared over a tree. It was matt black underneath had yellow stripes like The Hacienda (London nightclub). 

‘I didn’t think “little green men”, I thought “there’s a bit of tech we are not being told about”. I thought it was the American government.’

He also spoke of another time when a 33ft elongated strip of ‘negative light’ had passed through while he was ‘whittling’ lyrics for a song about alien abduction at his now former Hollywood home in San Fernando Valley. 

But he says nothing has happened ever since his children have been born.  

‘It is thrilling see those things,’ he said. ‘If I get to stay alive for another 25 years it will be a TV quest I will go on where I will go and examine my own mental illness or maybe there’s something to it 

‘I think something is up. I read everything to do with conspiracies, UFOs, with Bigfoot, with ghosts, with ghouls, with absolute everything… folklore, myths, blah. blah, blah. I don’t believe anything other than something is up.’