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Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is set to appear on ITV’s Piers Morgan’s Life Stories and during her interview she revealed that she almost died from bulimia.
The singer then credited Take That star Robbie Williams for having saved her life.
Ginger Spice told Piers Morgan: “I was worried I’d get fat. I would binge and then felt fatter and would make myself sick. It was awful.”
“Robbie knew about my bulimia and he advised me to get help. He told me to go into rehab and that possibly saved my life.
“The bulimia would have got worse without it. I will always be grateful to him, always.
“I became really close to Robbie after leaving the Spice Girls and it was a very poignant friendship.
“I was lonely and felt he was the only person on the planet who could understand me because of his experiences with Take That. We understood each other.
“But I didn’t really go out with him. I am happy and healthy now.”
Geri also opened up about her Dad’s death in 1993 and told how she thinks her determination to succeed was driven by her need to make him proud.
She said: “Sometimes I don’t think I would have been famous if it wasn’t for my father’s death because of the pain of it.
“I didn’t know how to express it. So I just turned all that pain into, ‘Right, I’m going to make it’ – and it wasn’t until I left the band, I think, that I started to really feel how much I missed him.”
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