A British pop icon with 20-plus years sober fired again at cocaine accusations after a viral World Cup interview clip had the web satisfied.
Robbie Williams shut down the web Monday morning after a wild clip from his World Cup broadcast look had the entire world satisfied he dropped a rock of cocaine on stay German tv.
The incident occurred Sunday night time after Williams carried out the official FIFA anthem “Want” on the 2026 World Cup closing ceremony at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, sharing the stage with Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira, and Burna Boy.
Throughout a post-show interview with German broadcaster MagentaTV, a small white object fell from the world round Williams’ face onto the microphone in entrance of him.
He picked it up, and in a transfer that solely made issues worse, by accident caught it to his brow whereas fixing his hair. Clips of the second unfold throughout social media at full velocity, with customers satisfied that they had simply watched the best-selling British solo artist in historical past casually drop blow on stay TV.
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You possibly can inform the individuals who haven’t been with Robbie Williams stage code heads…the CN out right here making you imagine coke solely goes in your nostril 😂 https://t.co/pMXPXiF4ej
— Solely Chelsea ⚽️ (@Here4ChelseaFC) July 21, 2026
Given his well-documented historical past with dependancy, the clip hit completely different than it could for many celebrities.
Williams has been brazenly vocal about his previous battles with cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy throughout his years within the boy group Take That and early in his solo run.
He’s spoken about coming dangerously near dying throughout a six-day drug binge in France in 1996, and Sir Elton John is credited with serving to him take his first steps towards sobriety.
Williams has marked greater than 20 years clear and has by no means been shy about crediting restoration as the inspiration of every thing he’s constructed since.
Relatively than go darkish or concern a proper assertion, Williams leaned all the way in which into the chaos on Instagram Monday morning.
He opened the video as if making ready to make a critical confession, constructing suspense earlier than sticking his tongue out to disclose a handful of mints.
Robbie Williams reacts to the web’s questions concerning the viral microphone second from the World Cup broadcast. 😂🎤 pic.twitter.com/ZQRwVAMo2u
— Distinct Publish. (@DistinctPost) July 20, 2026
The caption learn, “Simply awakened and feeling… Mint.” He mentioned the thing was a half-chewed mint that had fallen from his mouth, not his nostril, which strains up with what many sharp-eyed viewers had already clocked within the unique clip.
“It was deeply unprofessional and folks fearful about me,” he mentioned within the video earlier than breaking into a smile. “But it surely’s OK, as a result of I had a number of extra!”
The entire thing provides one other chapter to a profession stuffed with them for Williams, who holds the file for probably the most UK primary albums by any solo artist with 16 chart-toppers.
His present album Britpop reached that milestone earlier this 12 months and even options Black Sabbath guitarist Tommy Iommi. Hip-Hop heads might know him finest from his 2002 collaboration with Faithless MC M### Jazz on the Grammy-nominated monitor “My Tradition,” which fused trip-hop, world music and spoken phrase right into a crossover hit that charted within the UK prime ten.
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