In a new interview with the UK’s Mirror Online, 1980s pop star Marilyn, whose career peaked with his participation in Band Aid’s 1984 megahit “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, says he spent much of the last three decades doing drugs, watching Alien movies, and trying to recover from a 1986 arrest and his failed relationship with Gavin Rossdale, the Bush front man currently married to Gwen Stefani.
The 52-year-old former gender bending pop star, whose real name is Peter Robinson, calls his trial for heroin possession “a horrible part of my life” that began a snowball of financial and social problems — not to mention a nervous breakdown — that killed his career and nearly cost him his life. “If it had been one or two things, that would have been OK,” he says, “but it was everything at once.”
One such devastating factor was the end of his relationship with Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale, who Robinson has called the love of his life. Though Rossdale initially denied having a relationship with Robinson, he later admitted to indulging in a “one-time experimentation” with Marilyn.
Robinson remembers it differently: “He was a fan of mine. He’d follow me around the clubs everywhere and I was vile to him so he would stop. But he never did. One day I saw him in a club and told him it had to stop. He had his car outside and asked to speak to me somewhere quiet. He told me he loved me, which I said was ridiculous because he didn’t know me. But after about an hour-and-a-half we were both crying and ended up in each other’s arms. And that was it. We were a couple.”
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Though Robinson was found not guilty of the drug charge, he says he “cried every day for 10 years” following his and Rossdale’s breakup and spent the next two decades as a near-recluse. Along the way, he says, he lost nearly £1 million and ended up living on government assistance in his mother’s home, seeking solace in sci-fi. “I had the Alien box-set and would watch them in my room one by one, then start all over again. That went on for ages.”
It took a near-death from a lung infection to turn things around. “I realized I had nowhere else to go,” he says. “It was either death or trying to come out of this horrible place.”
Robinson, who’s writing a memoir, says he’s been drug-free for four years and celibate (“I’ve not even kissed anyone”) since parting ways with Rossdale.
zoomlens
OMG, this is so true to life. The exact thing happened to me. This guy followed me around the clubs and said he loved me and I said “you don’t even know me” but the guy asked to speak to me outside and we fell into each others arms. And there it was. We were a couple. But then I dumped him when I went to law school and he became a total recluse living in his mother’s basement and I went on to become a millionaire and live in giant house and drive and expensive car and I’m married to to this hot young guy who had a moderately successful band a decade ago.
NoCagada
@zoomlens: WOW! I thought I was hot after sleeping with JFK and killing Osama bin Laden
james_in_cambridge
I wonder if Gwen Stefani is in denial about being married to a gigantic flamer or is it that she doesn’t care? (or is she turned on by it? She doesn’t seem very kinky though…)
ariesmike
@james_in_cambridge Or he is just Bi and she does not care
cflekken
The way Gwen has been commenting on how some of the women on The Voice look this season, I’ve no doubt (pun intended) that she’s not exclusively straight either.
SFHandyman
We need to not be judgemental about men who have early homosexual dalliances but end up in hetero relationships.
When the hormones are really driving a guy in his teens and twenties, and all he wants to do is fuck fuck fuck, guys might look interesting and much easier than girls. Then after settling down a little hormonally he might find he is more interested in being with a romantic relationship with a woman.
I think this is going to start being more common with the stigma of being gay lifting some. More guys will feel free to experiment. I think we might see guys who were gay, switch to straight relationships to build a family, not driven by shame or religion. That’s just the way their sexuality will steer them. It was a common way to be in ancient times. Men with men/boys when young, later taking a wife.
partypig
@james_in_cambridge: Shouldn’t you be trolling over on Gawker?
Cam
@SFHandyman: said… “We need to not be judgemental about men who have early homosexual dalliances but end up in hetero relationships.
When the hormones are really driving a guy in his teens and twenties, and all he wants to do is fuck fuck fuck, guys might look interesting and much easier than girls. Then after settling down a little hormonally he might find he is more interested in being with a romantic relationship with a woman.”
__________________________
Wow, that’s right out of the right wing Ex-Gay handbook.
If guys are so horny and non-discriminating that they will fuck anything, isn’t it funny that in say, high school, you don’t see any of the women who are very overweight, considered ugly etc…. getting hit on by all the virgins in school.
Those guys would rather beat off then get into bed with somebody they aren’t attracted to so lets stop the whole “He was just so hormonal that he went with guys, but he REALLY wants a “Romantic” relationship with a woman.
You can meet a woman for a relationship anywhere, you have to try to meet guys.
SFHandyman
You really think it is easy for a straight guy to get an attractive girl to have sex with him when they are teens/20s? From what I’ve read, most girls make you really work for it. I don’t think most guys do that in their teens and twenties. If someone they find is attractive offers to get their dick wet, and they think they can get away with it socially or at least hide it, they are more inclined to say yes.
Straight guys have been having drunken gay sex even when the stigma was huge. With the social and legal scorn ratcheted way down, I think guys who are primarily straight will experiment more often.
This has nothing to do with the ex-gay nutjobs. I know many gay men who experimented with, or had serious relationships with women when they were young. It doesn’t make those men any less gay. Same is true with straight guys.
nitejonboy
Of course Gavin has had sex with men..he’s british and is a rock singer,lol.
Cam
@SFHandyman: said… “You really think it is easy for a straight guy to get an attractive girl to have sex with him when they are teens/20s?”
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In the 1980’s, when being gay was not an easy thing to be and they had to sneak out and around to find each other? Yeah, finding a girl was a hell of a lot more interesting. Additionally, if you read the story, this guy didn’t have an easy time, apparently he stalked Maralyn for ages so that isn’t somebody who is getting an easy lay now is it?
alterego1980
@SFHandyman: I don’t think you are that far off. I think that guys who are bi or just somewhere between straight and gay may experiment when they are young but may not have any intention to be in a same-sex relationship. They may go back to being “straight” and find a girlfriend because it’s socially more convenient or they just lean that way. This may be similar or different than Gavin, only he really knows.
My hope is that, as the gay stigma goes away in more and more places, those people will not have gay-shame and react in anger against gays as has happened so many times in the past, especially in the “ex-gay” and religious sectors, but they will instead be more liberal and understanding socially towards gays and bi’s who live & love openly in same sex relationships.
Tommy25
Marilyn is so boring. I can understand telling your story once about being addicted to drugs and breaking up with the love of your life. But this has to be the fifth or sixth article I’ve read about him in the last 10 years going over the same ground. It just seems to me he’s just doing it to get money from these tabloids and to get attention, not because he’s so “heartbroken”.00000
TristanShout
Sounds like it will be a very boring autobiography if he’s spent 30 years being celebrate and watch Alien over and over.
Lewis Kinslayer
This 2014 is being reposted now whywhy?!?
LovelyLabyrs
Oh my goodness, how cute and pretty does Gavin Rossdale look there. I would definitely dally myself…lol.
BustnMyNut
Marylin is a total fucking loser, not to mention that he never had a career, he hung onto Boy George’s coat-tails with a heroin grip.He was hanging on his coat right as he walked into the studio to make “do they know”. No one wanted him there but it was Christmas and no one had the heart to tell the pathetic loser to leave. His relationship with Gavan was in his head and simply giving Gavan head. So he sucks a mean dick, nicely. Most people do, when they are high 100% of the time. This story as most people are aware, is the only thing besides Aliens, that Marylin has a claim to try and get fame about. Not to mention he tried everything he could to behave and dress a a woman but was still to most, a tired lousy, talentless drag queen. She/he was the Caitlyn Jenner of the 80’s doing everything for all the wrong reasons and now he has managed to assist in putting the final nail in the coffin of an already difficult marriage that involves an extremely talented beautiful woman and three adorable children. Everyone in the industry at that time was sleeping with each other trying to find themselves. I am only speaking about this because I know it to be fact.He was constantly trying to commit suicide and unfortunately did not succeed. So he took that rejection from Gavan and created this non existing relationship in HIS HEAD. He should stop fagging off about it and do whatever he can to be something with a purpose.#sickofherbullshit#nobodycares#getalife
Ashleigh Boutelle
this again???
GZeusKriest
There’s more scandalous details of the rocky relationship between Gavin Rossdale from Bush and Gwen Stefani from No Doubt, including insight into his sexuality and mental state, and her surprising marriage to Blake Shelton. I delve deep into Gavin’s mind by comically interpreting his lyrics in the first episode of Bad Song Lyrics Poetry Slam.
https://youtu.be/20D90f9hli4