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Robbie Williams: Planning to tour

Robbie Williams has agreed to go back on tour despite recently insisting a live trek could give him a nervous breakdown.

The British pop star’s 2006 Close Encounters tour saw him cancel a string of dates in Asia due to exhaustion and ended with a stint in rehab for the singer, who checked into a clinic in Arizona to help deal with his prescription drug habit.

Williams has admitted touring always takes a toll on his mental health, and vowed never to go back on the road: “I cannot imagine touring in the near future. I’ve smashed my head against a wall too many times and I know it’s harder than I am.

“I felt great when I started to promote a record but it soon began to kill me. I felt worse when on tour. I suffered a nervous breakdown and checked into rehab.”

But Williams has now announced he is planning another set of live shows, despite his previous reservations about hitting the road.

He told the audience at a gig in London, “I will be going on tour. That will be happening. When, where, I don’t know. But it will be happening. Definitely before 2012.”

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