Robbie Williams' mother has been diagnosed with dementia.
The 50-year-old pop star's mom Janet is battling the same condition which affected the singer's late grandmother and the devastating news of her dementia diagnosis comes just four years after Robbie confirmed his dad Pete has been struggling with Parkinson's disease.
He told Hello! magazine: "My mum's currently got dementia ... and my dad's got Parkinson's and can't get out of bed. So I'm in a different part of my life right now."
Robbie's dad's diagnosis came during the COVID-19 pandemic when the singer and his wife Ayda were on the other side of the Atlantic living in California and unable to visit.
The family has also been dealing with health issues on Ayda's side as her mother has been battling cancer, Parkinson's disease and lupus in recent years.
It comes as Robbie's home life and rise to fame as a member of boyband Take That is being shown in screen in new film 'Better Man' in which the singer is portrayed by a CGI monkey.
In the interview with Hello!, the 'Angels' star revealed he sent a copy of the first script to his former bandmate Gary Barlow, who was devastated about being portrayed as a villain.
Robbie explained: "We're mates now, and I love him, and our relationship is 95 per cent healed, and there'll always be a scar, but he loves me. I love him ... "But the first script was different, right? And he phoned me up and he went: 'Rob, I can't believe this script. I come off worse than Darth Vader in the first 'Star Wars'.
"I was like: 'Just try to see from my point of view.'"
However, Robbie revealed the film did end up changing to tone it down. He added: "We did curb a few things, but that's the awkward thing about my life ... "What it was like when I was 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and how I thought and spoke when I was that age is very different from the 50-year-old me.
"So some of it was tempered down but the process of these things can rip the scab off the wound and it starts weeping again."
