Robbie Williams is facing a new health challenge.
The “Angels” singer shared that he was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by rapid, repetitive and involuntary muscle movements or sounds called “tics.”
For Robbie, however, those involuntary tics aren’t external but internal.
“I’ve just realized that I have Tourette’s, but they don’t come out,” the 51-year-old explained during the Oct. 2 episode of the I’m ADHD! No You’re Not podcast. “They are intrusive thoughts that happen.”
The Take That alum—who shares children Theodora, 12, Charlton, 10, Colette, 6 and Beau, 5, with wife Ayda Field—went on to describe the moment he realized he might be afflicted with the syndrome.
“I was just walking down the road the other day and I realized that these intrusive thoughts are inside Tourette’s,” Robbie said. “Not only that, you would think that a stadium full of people professing their love to you would work [as a distraction], but whatever it is, inside me, cannot hear it. I cannot take it in.”
