Robbie Williams Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Scurvy After Losing Two Stone
The Rock DJ singer, Robbie Williams, 51, has spoken out about his
various health battles over the past year, revealing the physical affects of a weight loss drug.
Explaining that he lost two stone whilst on the
medication, Robbie admitted it also led to an unusual diagnosis.
'I'd stopped eating and I wasn't getting
nutrients,' he said, explaining he was undernourished and lacking in vitamin C,
leading to scurvy which he dubbed: 'A 17th-century pirate disease.'
Robbie Williams added that his decades-long battle
with body dysmorphia meant he misconstrued concerned comments from loved
ones.
'With body dysmorphia, when people say they're worried about how you're
looking, you're like: "I've achieved it." When people say,
"We're worried you're too thin," that goes into my head as
"Jackpot. I've reached the promised land",' Robbie Williams told The Mirror.
'I'd stopped eating and I wasn't getting nutrients,' he said, explaining
he was undernourished and lacking in vitamin C, leading to scurvy which he
dubbed: 'A 17th-century pirate disease.'
Robbie Williams added that his decades-long battle
with body dysmorphia meant he misconstrued concerned comments from loved
ones.
'With body dysmorphia, when people say they're worried about how you're
looking, you're like: "I've achieved it." When people say,
"We're worried you're too thin," that goes into my head as
"Jackpot. I've reached the promised land",' Robbie Williams told The Mirror.
Robbie previously credited his two stone weight loss to 'something like
Ozempic,' sharing in a 2023 interview that he'd gone from weighing 13st 13lb to
12st 1lb while using an appetite suppressant.
Robbie explained
that being overweight is 'shockingly catastrophic' for his mental health.
The popstar, who was once dubbed 'Blobby Williams,'
described how mean his inner voice can be when he isn't slim, telling The
Times: 'Babe, I'm on Ozempic...Well, something like Ozempic. It's like a
Christmas miracle. I've gone from 13st 13lb to 12st 1lb.
'And I need it, medically. I've been diagnosed with type
2 self-loathing.
'It's shockingly catastrophic to my mental health to be
bigger. My inner voice talks to me like Katie Hopkins talks about fat people.
It's maddening.'
The star, who shares four children with his wife Ayda
Field, has also revealed that he suffered a debilitating bout of
depression at the start of this year - a decade after his last bad mental
health episode.
The singer was first diagnosed with depression in his twenties and has
battled addiction struggles amid life in the spotlight.
And as 2025 began he was left feeling
'confused' that his mental health issues returned as he 'thought he was at the
other end of the arc.'
He told The Mirror: 'The year started with
some ill mental health, which I haven't had for a very, very long time. I was
sad, I was anxious, I was depressed.
'It's been about ten years...I thought I was at the other
end of the arc.
'I thought this was the end of my story, and that I would
just go walking into this marvellous wonderland. So for it to return was just
confusing.'
It comes after at the end of last year Robbie candidly confessed
that he was not dealing with his parents' devastating ill health 'as
he should'.
He revealed earlier in 2024 that his mother Janet had been diagnosed
with dementia, four-years after father Pete was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
In rare comment about his parents Robbie said
he 'didn't know' how to cope with the 'incredibly complicated' situation.
'The truth is that I'm very busy and I'm not dealing with
the situation as I should. I don't really know how to do it, it's an incredibly
complicated thing'.
He continued: 'But I prefer not to go into details, You
know, if I say something, they might read it, and then I would have to answer a
lot of questions'.
'Let's put it this way: we are all human beings, with our
difficulties, and I am trying to deal with mine'.
Robbie first spoke about his mother's diagnosis after
revealing how his biopic Better Man depicts his loving relationship with his
late grandmother who has dementia in the film.
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