Robbie Williams has said he was heading for drug addiction, dealing and burglary before joining Take That.

The hit singer always had a problem with drugs, he said, and would have soon needed extra money to feed his habits.

Fortunately the other members of Take That kept him clean, though they still enjoyed smoking cannabis.

"Before Take That I'd done acid, speed and smoked a lot of weed so I was sort of heading into that direction anyway," Williams told an ITV documentary.

"In all seriousness I would have been a dealer or a burglar and that's the truth because I would not have had the money to fund my addiction," he explained. "I'd have probably been in jail now."

"But for the other lads it wasn't really part of their life, other than we used to like to smoke weed and then giggle," he added.