Robbie Williams has revealed he’s been diagnosed with autism.
The singer told how he’s ‘been diagnosed with “a little bit of autism,” and admitted he still struggles with “intrusive thoughts.”
The 52-year-old was speaking at a Q&A at the Autumn/Winter launch of his clothing brand Hopeium at Flannels.
“I have ADHD and I just found out I have a bit of autism as well, which I actually f***ing love because it explains so much,” he told the audience. “It is my get-out-of-jail-free card now, and all the weird s**t that I do I just say ‘sorry I’m autistic.”
“With the ADHD you can completely and utterly concentrate on something 1000%, but with absolutely everything else, you just cannot do it. Ask my kids,” he said. “What I’m completely and utterly obsessed with is creating images and making funny things, if I’m creating images and funny things, I’m not thinking about me, because my brain is incredibly creative, and it can be creative about everything in the world that you panic or scared about.”
He continued, “For example, this is how crazy I am, recently, I was sitting on a plane, and I thought ‘what I can have telekinesis and my intrusive thoughts tell the plane to crash itself.’ So that’s the kind of level of insanity that I’m dealing with, it’s best to train my brain to do something better than worrying about having supernatural powers and crashing a plane.”
In October last year, Williams revealed that he’d been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, as well as ADHD.
