DITA VON TEESE has revealed she dated Robbie Williams in the Noughties – just after she split from shock rocker Marilyn Manson.
Appearing on Alan Carr's Life's A Beach podcast today, the burlesque legend, 53, said: "I had actually gone on a date with Robbie Williams. I don't know how we met.
"We met like before I was getting married. And then afterwards, like I somehow met him somewhere and he took, we went on a date.
"We went and we played, went to this place called Hamburger Mary's and they do bingo nights there, like drag bingo.
"So we went there and first of all, he won like twice in a row and did like victory laps. And I was like, 'This guy is outrageous'.
"I love him. He's so great."
Robbie, 51, has since gone on to marry American TV star Ayda Field with whom he has four children.
The former Take That star long ago shed his wild 90s behaviour in favour of being a loving family man and has had a lot of self-reflection along the way.
He recently revealed he's been diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome on Paul Whitehouse and Dr Mine Conkbayir's podcast I'm ADHD! No You're Not.
Robbie explained his tics don't manifest outwardly but it is still overwhelming and makes it difficult for him to appreciate crowds when performing live.
He said: "I've just realised that I have Tourette's, but they don't come out.
"They are intrusive thoughts that happen, I was just walking down the road the other day, and I realised that these intrusive thoughts are inside Tourette's. It just doesn't come out.
"Not only that, you would think that a stadium full of people professing their love to you would work as (a distraction), but whatever it is inside me cannot hear it. I cannot take it in."
Meanwhile, Dita married controversial rocker Manson in December 2005, but their relationship was over just a year later.
In 2021, Manson was accused by actress and ex-fiancée Rachel Evan Wood of sexual abuse, including rape, during their time together.
Manson, real name Brian Warner, always denied the claims and, in January, legal proceedings were dropped after exceeding the statue of limitations.
More than a dozen women made claims against Manson in total, but Von Teese said that her own experience with Manson did not match them.
She wrote at the time: "Please know that the details made public do not match my personal experience during our seven years together as a couple. Had they, I would not have married him in December 2005.
"I left 12 months later due to infidelity and drug abuse.
"Abuse of any kind has no place in any relationship. I urge those of you who have incurred abuse to take steps to heal and the strength to fully realise yourself."
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