Robbie said I was the one...then dumped me

Quoted from: http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/

'27 November 2005
MODEL TELLS HOW £90M ROBSTER BEGGED HER TO 'RELIGHT OUR FIRE'
By Simon Wright


SUPERSTAR Robbie Williams persuaded his childhood sweetheart to abandon Britain and move to California with him - then dumped her after just FIVE days.
Rachel Gilson gave up everything - including her boyfriend - when Robbie begged her to set up home with him in Los Angeles this summer. But after four days at the singer's Beverly Hills mansion, Williams said it wasn't working...and the next day he sent the heartbroken model packing.
In the short time she was there, Rachel was shocked by the star's bizarre behaviour, which she blamed on his anti-depressants.
Today Rachel, described by Robbie in his recent autobiography as his "one and only true love", lives with her company director boyfriend Martin Livesey at a semi in Bury, Lancs.
"I thought it was for real," she says sadly. "But he's just too famous for it to work."
Robbie - nowadays worth an estimated £90million - and 33-year-old Rachel grew up together in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs. They have had a secret on-off relationship since they fell in love when they were both 16 and at school.
Robbie left to become a dancer and eventually joined Take That, while Rachel was spotted by a local modelling agency and became a fashion model.
A few months ago he rang her from his mansion in LA. Insisting that neither was getting any younger, he told her he was "ready to settle down" and that they were destined to be together.
And, in the words of one of his best-selling anthems, he added: "You're The One."
Days later she arrived at his £2million home with her suitcases, ready to start a new and permanent life in America.
But last night, with searing honesty, Rachel admitted that her heart had been broken again.
She said: "We are two people who should be together, but we just can't work it out. It is heartbreaking, but Rob and I have been here before.
"I did go to America but now I'm back here. What can I say? I don't think we're ever going to get married. Yes, it would be the best story ever, but I don't think it's ever going to happen."
She said she had promised Robbie not to reveal details of their romance. She smiled: "I could tell you so much more about those five days - but I just can't. It's between Rob and me.
"I have my boyfriend Martin to think about and I would never do anything to hurt him." She went on: "We know we should be together, but unfortunately Rob's just this megastar - and that just keeps getting in the way. But you know what, even if he was just a painter and decorator from Stoke it would be the same.
"I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I would love to tell you so many things, but Rob's just this massive power and everybody wants to know everything.
"But there's a track on his album called Ghost - and the lyrics to that say it all."
Ghost, on Robbie's Intensive Care album, is about two tortured lovers, unable to escape from the shadow of their shared passion. It contains the line: "I don't need you, but I'm lost without you."
Robbie - who this week smashed the world record for selling the most number of concert tickets in a day - named Rachel for the first time as his "one and only true love" in his life story published last year. After its publication, Rachel spoke of how they had tried numerous times to make it work but that it had always ended in heartbreak - for them both.
According to friends, her most recent heartache began when he begged her to drop everything and join him in LA.
She flew out of the UK excitedly believing that their "special bond" had finally won through. They had an emotional reunion and Rob explained that this time it was for real," says the friend.
"Rachel told him they'd been there before and that she didn't want her heart broken again.
"No one knows him like Rachel does and she believed him when he insisted he was ready to settle down and that he wanted to grow old with her.
"They've been through so much together and Rachel has taken so much sh** from him in the past that she was understandably wary. They've always known deep down that they are the love of each other's lives, but that's never been enough in the past. They talked for hours and he convinced her he was serious."
For the first couple of days they were lost in each other like a couple of love-struck teenagers.
"Rob showed her round his house and took her out for long lunches and they just hung-out talking about how perfect things were going to be," says the friend. "Rachel thought that they really were capable of making it work for good. But she and Rob had a blazing row and she knew then that it wasn't going to work. They tried to talk the following day. But it all ended in tears. Rob told her he was sorry but she had to go home. He said it couldn't possibly work.
"She hung around for another night but then flew back to England. They've spoken on the phone since, but Rachel's finding it really hard. She feels like he's broken her heart again. She loves Rob and he loves her but she knows it's destroying them both. She blames his eccentric behaviour on his use of anti-depressants."
Last night Robbie's spokesman said: "Rachel came out to visit Robbie in the summer. He only takes prescribed anti-depressants and any suggestions of drug misuse or any other inapproprite behaviour on his part are wholly untrue."
Rachel said: "Martin is my boyfriend but I was single when I went to visit Robbie."

ROBSTER'S OTHER ONES
ROBBIE has been linked with a string of celebrity beauties over the years - but has never found his Miss Right. He dated ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell (pictured left) in the late-90s and was rumoured to have slept with two others in the group. He went out with ex-All Saint Nicole Appleton before she wed Oasis star Liam Gallagher, and, shortly after quitting Britain for LA, he was pictured sunbathing naked with Rod Stewart's ex-wife Rachel Hunter. He also enjoyed a relationship with Nicole Kidman (right) shortly after she split with ex-husband Tom Cruise and two years ago dated society beauty Tamara Mellon, boss of the Jimmy Choo shoe empire.'