'I had a contract put on me to kill me!' Robbie Williams details how he was wanted by a hitman but had 'friends' who were able to make it go away

  • The singer said a contract was put on his head when he was 'ridiculously famous'
  • Robbie explained how friends of his were able to make the contract 'go away' 
  • The 47-year-old did not specifically explain when the hit was put out
  • Robbie also discussed how he struggles with the attention that comes with being a superstar

Robbie Williams has revealed how he was once the target of a hitman during the height of his fame - but he had 'friends' who made the situation go away.

The singer, 47, told how a contract was put on his head at a time when he was 'ridiculously famous', as he likened his stardom to Michael Jackson's.

Robbie explained how friends of his were able to make the contract 'go away', as he divulged in the 'unseen' side of being a celebrity.   

Shocking: Robbie revealed how he was once the target of a hitman during the height of his fame - but he had 'friends' who made the situation go away (pictured 2020)

Shocking: Robbie Williams has revealed how he was once the target of a hitman during the height of his fame - but he had 'friends' who made the situation go away (pictured 2020)

Robbie told the Mirror: 'I've never, ever said this, but I had a contract put on me to kill me. I've never said that publicly before. It went away. I have friends. That stuff is the unseen stuff that happens when you become famous.'

Robbie went on to discuss how he struggles with the attention that comes with being a superstar and how he has only come to terms with it in recent years.  

He said: 'Extreme fame and extreme success meets with anxiety and depression and mental illness. There's a few levels of fame and what it does to you. The first one is "f**k".

Heyday: The singer, 47, told how a contract was put on his head at a time when he was 'ridiculously famous', as he likened his stardom to Michael Jackson's (pictured in 1993)

Heyday: The singer, 47, told how a contract was put on his head at a time when he was 'ridiculously famous', as he likened his stardom to Michael Jackson's (pictured in 1993)

'There's a couple more I can't remember but the fourth one is ­acceptance. You sort of rally against your privacy being taken away from you and you rally against it by trying to be normal, trying to be normal but also I'm gonna be small so people don't beat you up. Like, "I'm a d**khead, don't hurt me."

Robbie said that it 'takes a while' to reach a place of acceptance that you can't go to certain places out of fear that people want to 'kill' you.

The Angels hitmaker said that the idea of meeting strangers gives him anxiety, however he is well aware that strangers are interested in meeting him.

Robbie recently relocated his family to Lake Geneva, however prior to that they lived in a mansion in Los Angeles - where he has resided since 2004.

Candid: Robbie explained how friends of his were able to make the contract 'go away', as he divulged in the 'unseen' side of being a celebrity (pictured in 1993)

Candid: Robbie explained how friends of his were able to make the contract 'go away', as he divulged in the 'unseen' side of being a celebrity (pictured in 1993)

Robbie, who is married to Ayda Field and shares daughters Teddy and Colette, and sons Charlton and Beau, explained that he didn't push his music in the U.S. so that he could live in anonymity there. 

He told This Past Weekend podcast: 'I came to America to promote an album.

'And I'm in Milwaukee and doing a radio station to eight people at seven o'clock in the morning and I already have millions in the bank and a huge following and I'm depressed and I'm anxious. 

So I'm going around America doing all this stuff and I'm going, 'Hang on, all of this fame is making me anxious and depressed and if I go to America then I'm famous in Papua New Guinea if I'm famous in America…'

Family: Robbie, who is married to Ayda Field and shares daughters Teddy and Colette, and sons Charlton and Beau, explained that he didn't push his music in the U.S. so that he could live in anonymity there

Family: Robbie, who is married to Ayda Field and shares daughters Teddy and Colette, and sons Charlton and Beau, explained that he didn't push his music in the U.S. so that he could live in anonymity there

'Then I'm like, 'Hang on, what am I doing here?

'This realisation is happening as I'm travelling through America trying to break America.

'Why am I trying to break this? Why don't I go and live there and live in anonymity and then have a nice life.'

'The grown up driving the car made a decision to not promote in America, not do anything.

'So I moved there and turned ­everything down that I was offered in the States.

'Basically, what happens is I live in anonymity here and really enjoy that, then I try to move back to my home country and remember that I have no anonymity there and that makes me feel anxious and depressed and then I move back to the States.'