Robbie Williams: ‘My main talent is turning trauma into something showbizzy’

He’s sold 75m albums, but he’s still racked with self-doubt. He talks about anxiety, addiction and why he still fears being sent back to Stoke-on-TrentRobbie Williams emerges from the bedroom of his hotel suite, shakes my hand, explains that he’s just woken up – it’s 2.30 in the afternoon – and lights a cigarette. The latter comes as something of a surprise. For one thing, we’re in the kind of central London hotel where you suspect it’s ruinously e