I'm loving aliens instead

On December 18 2006, Robbie Williams played the last of 59 stadium shows in a row, announced he was going to spend Christmas at his home in Los Angeles, and then basically disappeared. He was hardly seen at all in 2007. He briefly checked into rehab. He spent quite a bit of time hiking and playing football (he owns a football pitch on Mulholland Drive). Then he stopped hiking and playing football. His record company, EMI, announced he had no plans to release an album in 2008. Today he unexpectedly calls me to ask if I want to go with him to the desert in Nevada to meet UFO abductees.
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El artículo es interminable, por eso no lo copio entero, pero he aquí algunas "joyas":

I fly to Los Angeles. When Robbie comes to his door, I hardly recognise him. He has grown a very bushy beard. He sees me scrutinising it, slightly agape, and says, "OK, I'm piecing it together now. I've grown a beard and I'm going to Nevada to speak to people about UFOs. I think I should shave so I don't look so mad."

"Pop stars aren't allowed to have beards," he says. "Name me a pop star with a beard."

We go to his TV room. His girlfriend, the actor Ayda Field, is in there, watching a UFO DVD.

He said he liked a book I had written about conspiracy theorists and was thinking of spending a night in a haunted house. "Do you know any?" he asked.

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