Robbie 'nearly bailed on Take That reunion'

Robbie Williams has revealed that he nearly walked out on Take That just months after rejoining the band.

Williams made the admission in the group's upcoming documentary Look Back, Don't Stare: A Film About Progress, which follows the band's reunion with their former member during secret recording sessions in summer 2009.

The 'Angels' singer explained that he felt "depleted" of energy when watching the rest of the band perform at last November's Children In Need fundraiser gig and suffered a crisis of confidence.

"I wasn't very well physically," Williams said. "I just didn't feel as if I had the energy to do it. It was a scary prospect to be out there amongst something that was so huge, feeling so depleted of life force."

Mark Owen described how he went to Williams's house in order to talk him back round to the idea.

Owen said: "I went round to Rob's house and I went round a couple of times, because it's just better if you can talk to each other I think. We said, 'Forget about promotion, forget about touring' because that's a big thing, it's always daunting.

"'You know, it's a year; let's just say we make this record, look at how many days it's going to take us max,' and we worked out, 'It's going to take about 30 days of you being in the studio this year, do you want to do it?' 'Yeah, I wanna do it.' 'Well, do you have 30 days spare?' 'Yeah I've got 30 days spare.' 'Well right, let's do it'."

Take That: Look Back, Don't Stare will be broadcast on Saturday night at 9.30pm on ITV1.

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