Robbie: Fan tried to molest me
Robbie Williams has told how he had to fight off a fan who tried to molest him as he played live – by putting her hands down his trousers.
The singer was performing at Amsterdam Arena when he dragged a beautiful woman called Sabine from the audience to the stage.
But speaking about the incident for the first time to BBC radio he said he regretted his actions when she started writhing on top of him.
In an interview with Sara Cox being broadcast on her Breakfast Show today, he said he has been regularly inviting members of the crowd on stage.
“I got one out one night and she’d not washed and she smelt, quite frankly,” he said.
But picking out Sabine he thought: “I’m going to have a good time here so I picked a good looking one.
“She gets up on stage and she puts her hands down my pants, her tongue down my mouth and she was trying to rip my vest off and I’m singing, trying to maintain the fact that these people think I’m a bit cool.
“At one point she was locked like a vice grip and she’s writhing with me.
“I’ve tried to pull her off and sit her next to me but she straddles the top of me and starts grinding – now normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but there’s 60,000 other people there so I try to pull her hair to make it look sexy but I’m actually trying to pull her off of me.”
Williams also said he realises he has now reached the Madonna and Michael Jackson proportions in terms of the audiences he can attract.
“When you’re in the middle of a storm you don’t actually know how big it is,” he said.
“And every now and again I ask myself who else plays stadiums? The Jacksons, Madonna, U2 and I go, ‘bloody hell, I must be that big’.
“You can’t get a perspective of what it is or who you are or what your fame’s like because you’re not looking at it from the outside.
“I’m just a bit giddy with my own success at the minute. I mean that in a very humble way,” added Williams.
