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Robbie Williams claims his music career will ‘kill him’

Robbie Williams has claimed that his music career will “kill” him, as he opened up about his battle with depression.

The 43-year-old, who first found fame with Take That back in 1990 at the tender age of 16, got candid in a new interview with The Sunday Times magazine.

“This job is really bad for my health. It’s going to kill me. Unless I view it in a different way.

“[Depression] sprints through my family. I don’t know if I’d be this mentally ill without fame,” he said. “I don’t think it would be as gross or as powerful if it hadn’t have been for fame.”

“You get a magnifying glass in the shape of the world’s attention and your defects will obviously magnify too.”

The singer, who has battled addictions to drugs and alcohol over the years, praised his wife to saving him.

“She has the smarts to know how to not sink the ship, and I just want to sink the ship to see what it looks like.”

Robbie and Ayda, who married in 2010, are parents to their daughter Teddy, 5, and their two-year-old son Charlie.

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