Year of the Marijuana Farm: Robbie Williams 'gifted personal cannabis supply for wedding anniversary'

Ayda and husband Robbie Williams
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Lydia Hawken25 April 2018
The Weekender

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Robbie Williams’ wife reportedly bought him a marijuana farm to mark their seven year wedding anniversary last August.

According to rapper Big Narstie, who collaborated with Robbie on his 2017 single Go Mental, William’ wife installed a marijuana farm in the basement of their LA home in celebration of the relationship milestone.

Referring to American actress Ayda Field as a “good wife”, the rapper told The Sun that he “saw the present she got him for their anniversary. She got him a whole weed farm in their basement in LA.”

The British pop star has been open about his struggles with substance abuse in the past, telling the Radio Times in 2010 that marijuana is “such a lovely drug” but “it doesn’t mix well with me – at all.

Robbie Williams performing at the 2017 Brit Awards
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Just two years later, the controversial pop star professed to have “smoked a spliff in Buckingham Palace” during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012, a concert that was organised by rival Gary Barlow.

Williams was just 16-years-old when he rose to fame as a member of Take That and has previously said that he started dabbling in drugs as a teenager.

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“When I stared going clubbing at 16 we were on acid […] then it progressed into cocaine,” he told journalists in 2009. “I was 19 and went to the MTV Awards and did some Ephedrine, coke, and E’s.”

The Angels singer married Loose Women panellist Field in a private ceremony at their Beverley Hills home in 2010 and the couple have two children Theodora, 5, and Charlie, 3, together.

Recreational use of the drug has been legal in the state of California since 2016, with the law stating that adults are permitted to possess up to one ounce of marijuana on their person and can grow six plants for individual use.

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