Robbie Williams wants to see more mental health safeguarding in the music industry following the death of Liam Payne.
The 50-year-old Take That star has been open about his own struggles with drugs and depression in the past, and he wants to use his experience to put together a new industry framework to protect young people in the aftermath of Liam's tragic death in Argentina in October after also battling substance abuse and mental health woes.
Robbie told The Sun newspaper: "Any of those moments in my life where ultimate chaos was being achieved by me - because of the powders and potions and what I was putting into myself - it could so easily have been me so many times.
"I feel like I should do something in the way of mental health. I want to gather around some like-minded people in the industry and say, ‘What can we do?’"
Robbie went on to add: "Progress is being made, though - because at least we’re talking about things and at least we accept that these things happen and they are real and not a figment of people’s imagination.
"I think the idea of safeguarding industries is all great when it comes to big institutions like [UK broadcasters] the BBC or ITV or Channel 4.
"But there are more people at grass-roots level trying to make it than there are people who have made it. So that’s maybe where we can step in and do something."
Robbie - who rose to fame in a boyband just like Liam - previously admitted he believes he survived his wild younger years because he never found huge success in the US.
He told the Telegraph magazine: “I mean, I genuinely think that I’m very lucky to be alive, and I wonder how much in part that is because I didn’t break here [in the US].
"And there has been a safety that I don’t feel anywhere where I am famous."
Robbie believes he is now in the "best place" he's ever been with his mental health thanks to the love and support of his wife Ayda Field and their four children.
He added: "I’ve struggled with mental illness, and all the way through the most successful parts of my career, I couldn’t derive joy from them.
"There’s been a couple of decades, maybe a bit more, of just depression, anxiety, agoraphobia, dyslexia, dyscalculia - all the things we diagnose our friends with at dinner parties, I’ve got them.
"Through working on myself, through seeking help and taking help, and through the love of a good woman and four kids, and just growing up and maturing, I’m in the best place that I’ve ever been."
