Robbie Williams and Ayda Field threatened with being beheaded on Haiti visit in 2010

Robbie Williams and his wife Ayda Field were threatened with being beheaded while doing charity work in Haiti.

The “Rock DJ” singer visited Haiti with children’s charity Unicef in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, which left an estimated 250,000 dead and 1.5 million without homes.

Speaking about the trip on Field’s Postcards from the Edge podcast, Williams recalled the incident, saying: “I got threatened to be beheaded in Haiti. We were going out there to help.

“I was like, ‘Should we go to the next street then?’, and looking back, it was scary.”

Field, who has four children with Williams, added: “I was with you. I too was being threatened to be beheaded as well.”

In an interview at the time, Williams discussed seeing the magnitude of the earthquake, saying: “As we walked around Jacmel on the first day, it’s hard to explain in words the massive and devastating impact that the earthquake clearly had – it’s a whole different league from what I had imagined I would see.

“It was almost unbelievable, like a movie set. Cars completely crushed – some still poking out from underneath the buildings that have fallen on top of them.”