I'd be on drugs if it didn't make me fat, says Robbie

Pop star Robbie Williams says he would still be taking drugs if they did not make him fat.

The singer said his years of cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol addiction had given him some of the best times in his life.

His main regret is that bingeing on drink and drugs made him “blow up to the size of a small aircraft hangar”. Williams, aged 30, is currently clean after a lengthy spell in rehab.

But in an interview with Real Radio he said: “I think that when I was drinking and doing drugs and all that… I think I’d still be doing it if I could make good judgment calls and I’d still be doing it if I didn’t blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, you know, because it was a great time.

“Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs… and I’m not saying: ‘go out and do drugs, kids,’ but I enjoyed them.”

Asked if he was confident about staying off the drink and drugs, he replied: “No, I’m not confident at all.”

Williams spiralled into addiction after leaving boy band Take That in 1995. His condition became so bad that friend Elton John “kidnapped” him and had him admitted to a rehab clinic.

His drug problems caused his weight to yo-yo – Noel Gallagher famously dubbed him “the fat dancer from Take That”.

In the two-hour radio interview, to be broadcast on Christmas Day, Williams also told how he would spend his time if he could have a week off from being famous.

The singer said he would return home to Stoke-on-Trent for a kebab and an afternoon watching his beloved Port Vale.

He said: “I’d like to go and sit in the Railway Paddock at Port Vale and sing songs with them all.

“Also, I don’t drink but I’d like to go and get drunk in Hanley town centre in Stoke-on-Trent and I’d like to have a kebab at Sinbad’s at the end of the High Street in Tunstall. I’d also like to ride my bike through Tunstall Park.”

The interview will be broadcast from 10am-12pm on Christmas Day.