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Robbie Williams admits he thought he would die young as he pays tribute to Liam Payne

Robbie Williams thought he would die young

Robbie Williams thinks he is only still alive because of "dumb luck".

The 50-year-old pop star shot to fame when he was a teenager as part of Take That in the late 1990s and has opened up about his personal struggles with addiction in the years that followed but following the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne - who died on Wednesday (16.10.24) after jumping from his hotel balcony in Buenos Ares - he initially assumed he would suffer a similar fate to Hollywood actor Heath Ledger, who died in 2008 aged just 28.

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