Robbie Williams on why he sued tabloid over gay rumors: “If you hate me, at least hate me for the right reasons”

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Look, if I fancied noshing some bloke off by the canal, I’d have noshed some bloke off by the canal. The visual of that, I am perfectly OK with; it was important for me to be me at the time. Just like it’s important for you to be you in every aspect and to be seen and to be heard.

I’m not disrespecting anybody or getting my handbag and going, ‘Heaven forbid that people think of this disgusting thing [about] me.’

I was maligned, belittled, disrespected, hated, followed, harangued, phone-tapped…

People on the payroll being told to give rumors about me, tell them where I was, people who were in the credit card companies. And my only way of representing myself at

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