Unhealthy: At one point Geri Halliwell's weight dropped to just 7 stoneGeri Halliwell has revealed she nearly died from bulimia - and it was only thanks to the intervention of Robbie Williams that she sought help.
The former Spice Girl's weight plummeted to 7stone after she left the band, eventually prompting her close friend Robbie to insist she booked into a clinic for treatment.
'I was worried I'd get fat. I would binge and then felt fatter and would make myself sick. It was awful,' she said.
'Robbie knew about my bulimia and he advised me to get help. He told me to go to rehab and that possibly saved my life.
'The bulimia would have got worse without it. I will always be grateful to him, always.'
Geri, 37, broke down as she made the revelations on Piers Morgan's Life Stories.
She said she and former Take that star Robbie shared a close bond, becoming friends two years after she left the band.
'I became really close to Robbie after leaving the Spice Girls and it was a very poignant friendship.
'I was lonely and felt he was the only person on the planet who could understand me because of his experiences with Take That.
'We understood each other. But I didn't really go out with him. I am happy and healthy now.'
Geri was treated for her bulimia at the Cottonwood Du Tuscon clinic in Arizona.
She also talked about the death of her father Francis in 1993.
'Sometimes I don't think I would have been famous if it wasn't for my father's death, because of the pain of it,' she admitted.
'I didn't know how to express it. So I just turned all that pain into, "Right, I'm going to make it" - and it wasn't until I left the band, I think, that I started to really feel how much I missed him.'
Life saver: Geri Halliwell and Robbie Williams at the Brit Awards in 2001Piers Morgan's Life Stories is on ITV1 on April 3 at 9.25pm.
source: dailymail
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