Yahoo News Robbie Williams checked into a hotel as Liam Gallagher
Robbie Williams has opened up about the time he pretended to be Liam Gallagher so that he could check into his hotel room and sleep with a journalist.
The singer has never been shy about sharing some of the more incredible stories from his past, and it looks like his new biography Reveal isn't holding back anything either, as a new extract details the whole story.
"Did I ever tell you about the time that I booked into a hotel as Liam Gallagher?" Robbie says in the book, written by Chris Heath (via Yahoo! News).
"I was up all night in Manchester and then got on the train the next day with all the journalists that were still awake, and pulled a journalist.
"I think it was Later… with Jools Holland that he was supposed to be coming down for, and I knew that Liam wasn't coming, and I knew that he had a hotel room free and I knew his pseudonym – Billy Shears.
"So I checked in as Billy Shears and slept with this journalist."
Well that sounds like a story from the '90s if ever we heard one, back when Robbie and Liam were briefly on good terms before his feud with the Gallagher brothers really got going.
And as for whether Liam found out about Robbie's hotel subterfuge, the singer went on to say that somebody did tell him what had happened, prompting Liam to apparently call Robbie a "cheeky c**t".
"I don't know if it was 'cheeky c**t' good or 'cheeky c**t' bad – I'm guessing bad," Robbie added.
"But, you know, I'd been up for more than twenty-four hours in the fumes of rock 'n' roll. In the dying embers of the night.
"What seems a good idea off your rocker is not the best idea sober."
Robbie has been candid about his addictions to sex, drugs and alcohol in the past and recently opened up about how fame has been bad for his mental health.
"I don't know if I'd be this mentally ill without fame," he said.
"You get a magnifying glass in the shape of the world's attention and your defects will obviously magnify too. I'm not moaning about it. I would still have signed up. I'm just saying, when 'a' happens, it does 'b' to me."
Reveal: The Official Biography of Robbie Williams by Chris Heath is out now.
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