Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills has thanked Robbie Williams for rescuing him from lonely nights on the bottle after his boyfriend died of a drugs overdose.
Scott Mills has recalled how Robbie Williams saved him from a life on the bottle (Picture: PA)
The 39-year-old's life derailed after the Brit Awards one year when he was told that boyfriend Mitch had died.
He revealed: 'I felt everything was bleak. I had no friends. My flatmate Fraser was the only person I saw.
'I was presenting the early show, so I'd wake up at 2.30am, do the show, come home and go back to sleep.
'Then I'd wake up in the evening and drink two bottles of wine or a bottle of spirits in front of the TV. It was a way to escape.'
His boozy woes followed him into the studio: 'One morning I went on air drunk. That could have been a massive f***-up for me. Even I would've sacked me. But thank God for Radio 1 – they knew about Mitch and why I was having a bad time. It was a proper wake-up call.'
In the end he turned to the former Take That star for comfort.
Mills told Now magazine: 'It's stayed under the radar because that's how I wanted it, but Robbie was someone I could talk to about my drinking.
'He's knocked all of his problems on the head. I found talking to him very comforting. I see so much of myself in him – my insecurities, not knowing if you're good enough, the depression and the alcohol.
Mills said losing his drive-time show after eight years to Greg James was 'like a punch in the stomach'.
But it's not the first hurdle that Mills has had to overcome at the station, after he confronted loud mouth Chris Moyles.
'He can come across as homophobic, but it's because he's so not that he thinks it's OK to say some things,' Mills said. 'I was quite scared and overwhelmed by him. I dreaded hosting the show before or after him because of what he was going to say.
'I went in one day and said: "What's your problem?" When I confronted him he was an absolute puppy dog.'
Read the full interview in Now magazine out today.
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