{"id":4487,"date":"2025-04-08T06:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T06:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2025-04-10T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T18:29:10","slug":"robbie-williams-reveals-he-contracted-a-17th-century-pirate-disease-and-details-health-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/robbie-williams-reveals-he-contracted-a-17th-century-pirate-disease-and-details-health-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams reveals he contracted \u2018a 17th-century pirate disease\u2019 and details health struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robbie Williams has revealed he was diagnosed with scurvy (Picture: Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Robbie Williams<\/a> has revealed that he was diagnosed with scurvy after taking an appetite-suppressant drug.<\/p>\n

The singer, 51, revealed in a candid interview that he has been struggling with a variety of mental and physical issues in the past year.<\/p>\n

Robbie explained that last year he lost nearly two stone after using a weight loss drug, but it had rather negative effects on his health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘I’d stopped eating and I wasn\u2019t getting nutrients,’ he said, explaining he was lacking in vitamin C and contracted scurvy.<\/p>\n

‘A 17th-century pirate disease,’ Robbie told The Mirror<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He added that he was getting incredibly thin, but his body dysmorphia made concerned comments from friends and family sound like compliments. <\/p>\n

‘With body dysmorphia, when people say they\u2019re worried about how you\u2019re looking, you\u2019re like: “I\u2019ve achieved it.\u2019 When people say, “We\u2019re worried you\u2019re too thin,” that goes into my head as “Jackpot. I\u2019ve reached the promised land.”‘<\/p>\n

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The star has spoken about weight loss drugs before (Picture: Brittany Long\/Publishd\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The singer has previously spoken about losing weight while taking ‘something like Ozempic’.<\/p>\n

The former Take That singer revealed he had lost 26 pounds since starting the controversial medication<\/a>, originally developed for managing type 2 diabetes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Babe, I\u2019m on Ozempic. Well, something like Ozempic. It\u2019s like a Christmas miracle. I\u2019ve gone from 13st 13lb to 12st 1lb,’ he told The Times<\/a> in December 2023.<\/p>\n

\u2018And I need it, medically. I\u2019ve been diagnosed with type 2 self-loathing. It\u2019s shockingly catastrophic to my mental health<\/a> to be bigger.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Rock DJ hitmaker added: \u2018My inner voice talks to me like Katie Hopkins talks about fat people. It\u2019s maddening.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The singer has been candid about his weight loss struggles (Picture: robbiewilliams)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The singer lost two stone (Picture: Ken McKay\/ITV\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the interview with The Mirror,the star also revealed that some mental health issues accompanied the physical changes in his body.<\/p>\n

‘The year started with some ill mental health, which I haven’t had for a very, very long time. I was sad, I was anxious, I was depressed.’<\/p>\n

He added that he hadn’t suffered from depression in 10 years, so this was ‘confusing’ for him after so many years. <\/p>\n

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Ayda has supported Robbie (Picture: David Fisher\/REX\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The singer has been open in recent months about his parents’ decline in health.<\/p>\n

In 2024, he revealed that his mother Janet had been diagnosed with dementia, which comes four years after his father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. <\/p>\n

‘My mum’s currently got dementia,’ he told HELLO!<\/a> in 2024, ‘and my dad’s got Parkinson’s and can’t get out of bed. So I’m in a different part of my life right now.’<\/p>\n

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Robbie Williams has revealed he was diagnosed with scurvy (Picture: Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images) Robbie Williams has revealed that he was diagnosed with scurvy after taking an appetite-suppressant drug. The singer, 51, revealed in a candid interview that he has been struggling with a variety of mental and physical issues in the past year. Robbie explained that last year he lost nearly two stone after using a weight loss drug, but it had rather negative effects on his health. ‘I’d stopped … Continue reading “Robbie Williams reveals he contracted \u2018a 17th-century pirate disease\u2019 and details health struggles”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}