Robbie Williams has told Radio 1 he was "torn apart" when former fiancee Nicole Appleton went public about her abortion. Talking to Sara Cox he said that although he gave the former All Saint permission to write about the abortion in her book that it was painful to see the story in print. Nicole wrote about her abortion in the book ‘Together’ which she wrote with sister Natalie, claiming she had been forced into the operation for the sake of her career by management.
"I spoke to her probably eight or nine months before the book came out and she said that she was gonna do it - and I was completely behind her,” Robbie said. "If there's something that's so deep-rooted within yourself that you feel it would feel better to you that you exorcised it and got it off your chest, because secrets can make you sick and secrets can make you feel terrible... then I'm completely behind her. It was really sad though, it was really sad, because she asked me about it and it was 'well, good on you'.”