ROBBIE Williams is being treated for depression, the Daily Mirror can reveal.

The condition - which the troubled star, 32, has battled before - may help explain why he suddenly axed the Asian leg of his world tour this month.

Although the official reason given was that he had "stress and exhaustion", insiders say he has sunk to a new low.

A source close to him revealed: "He's suffered from depression before but feels things are getting worse and the tour was too much."

Robbie is being treated by Dr Mark Collins, a top expert at the Priory clinic in South West London.

The star has even flown him to California, where he lives, for sessions.

The source added: "He's determined to get the very best treatment."

The news comes as he has struggled in the charts and been hit by legal disputes. Comeback single Rudebox flopped and ex-manager Nigel Martin-Smith is threatening to sue over a track on his new album in which he is called an "evil man".

Robbie has talked openly about depression, which he first admitted battling in 2002. In a BBC documentary this month he told Stephen Fry: "I could get up in front of 35,000 or 40,000 people and go, 'Look at me, I'm ace!'

"Then as soon as I got off stage I'd get in the tour coach and go back to my bedroom and pull the duvet over my eyes."
By Eva Simpson And Tom Bryant

Source: Mirror.co.uk