Robbie Williams on tackling his agoraphobia - "I spent years wearing kaftan and growing a beard"

"It was my body and mind telling me I shouldn’t go anywhere, that I couldn’t do anything. It was telling me to just wait, so I literally just sat and waited. I was agoraphobic from around 2006 to 2009. Those years were just spent wearing a cashmere kaftan, eating Kettle Chips, growing a beard and staying in" - Robbie Williams says in The Sun interview (about his performance in London's Hyde Park). The healing started with a Killers song - "something in that moment made me think, 'I had better get my arse in gear, put an album together and tour'", and finished thanks to his former band - "If it wasn’t for Take That, and rejoining them, I don’t know if I’d have come back at all. Initially, I got to hide in plain sight - I could hide behind my boys. They helped an awful lot."