Robbie Williams reveals daughter Teddy, 10, has dyslexia like him-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

The singer opened up on trying to help his little girl deal with the condition (Picture: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

Robbie Williams has revealed that his eldest daughter Teddy has dyslexia, the same as him.

The Angels chart-topper, who recently admitted he ‘messed up’ igniting a romance with his ‘crush of all crushes’ Kylie Minogue back in 2000, announced in 2020 that he suffered from the condition and has now confirmed that his 10-year-old girl has also been diagnosed.

Speaking in a new interview, he shared the difficulties the two of them had experienced due to prejudice against the condition, as well as how he tried to help Teddy deal with it.

Confirming that his older daughter ‘suffers from dyslexia, just like me’, he added: ‘When I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent in the Eighties, however, dyslexia was still a completely unknown diagnosis.

‘I have to explain to her what dyslexia is, what it means for people, how to deal with it. And that if you suffer from it, you’re not automatically stupid.’

Robbie, who also has son Charlie, eight, daughter Coco, four, and two-year-old boy Beau with wife Ayda Field, said that Teddy had been struggling after being abandoned by a friend following her diagnosis with the learning condition.

Robbie previously announced he was dyslexic in 2020 (Picture: Dylan Burns/AFL Photos via Getty Images)

The 48-year-old star revealed that one of Teddy’s pals had decided ‘overnight’ that she ‘didn’t want anything to do with her anymore’.

He heartbreakingly described his daughter as ‘devastated’ and ‘completely desperate’ over the situation.

‘I tried to make it clear to her that sometimes you just have to let other people go, that you should let them go – but without sacrificing your own self-esteem in the process.’

‘This girl did not serve her love and friendship. Again, as I said, I speak from experience,’ he added to Galore magazine.

Teddy, 10, is the oldest of Robbie and Ayda’s four children (Picture: Instagram/aydafieldwilliams)

Robbie previously explained that he was ‘numerically dyslexic’ as he finds it hard to add and subtract numbers together and struggles to remember key dates such as family birthdays.

‘I’m numerically dyslexic. I can’t add or subtract,’ he said during an appearance on the Three Little Words podcast in September 2020.

‘I always get in trouble because I don’t know my kids’ birth dates and I don’t know our anniversary and I don’t know my wife’s birthday.’

He also revealed that he struggled to remember his home address in Los Angeles, as it starts with four numbers and he ‘can’t ever remember what those digits are’.

Ayda spoke candidly about their married life on her podcast (Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images)

Ayda recently said that she and Robbie enjoy ‘threesomes’ almost every night in bed in a tongue-in-cheek reference to her husband of 12 years’ reliance on his laptop.

‘My husband actually sleeps with the computer. He cradles it like a security blanket. It’s the threesome we’re having. It’s me, Rob, and our leather MacBook,’ she told guest Sophie Ellis-Bextor on her Postcard from the Edge podcast.

She went on: ‘There are times when I[‘ve] whacked myself on the computer in the night or he flicks it off the bed and there’s this huge, loud crash and I’ve jumped.’

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The actress went on to explain that Robbie has trouble sleeping, but because of his past addiction struggles, the hitmaker chooses not to take sleeping pills. 

‘I think his addiction is really technology now, you know, he will always find something,’ she added.

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