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Robbie Williams: ‘I am who I am because I drank and did drugs. I don’t know, if I had a time machine, that I would change anything’

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July 8, 2026

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Robbie Williams: ‘I am who I am because I drank and did drugs. I don’t know, if I had a time machine, that I would change anything’

One of the UK’s biggest pop stars performs on Friday at the Bilbao BBK Live festival. We talked with him about his new album ‘Britpop’ and his favorite subject: himself

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