Selma Blair is dishing on a famous pop star who once abandoned her — in the middle of a date.
The “Cruel Intentions” star revealed as much on “The Drew Barrymore Show” Tuesday while opening up about her life with multiple sclerosis. Blair seemingly tried to shield the singer’s identity while telling her story — until she simply couldn’t anymore.
“Once when I was even younger, there was a potential … there was actually an act — Robbie Williams was over my house,” Blair blurted out on the show. “And it was like almost a date, a million years ago. A million. And he opens up my refrigerator and he’s like, ‘I gotta go.’”
Blair added that she couldn’t help but contact a mutual friend of theirs to find answers.
“I’m like, ‘Why did he leave so abruptly?’ [The mutual friend said], ‘Oh, your kitchen was empty and he knew you don’t cook, so that wasn’t gonna work for him,’” she laughingly recalled. “And Bravo to him for knowing he needed a tummy filled from his woman.”
American audiences might not be familiar with Williams, despite him being one of the bestselling music artists of all time. A former member of British boy band Take That, he was recently portrayed as a CG-animated chimp in the 2024 biopic “Better Man.”
Blair appeared to take their near-romantic encounter in stride Tuesday, and discussed how she approaches dating while dealing with a debilitating central nervous system disorder — which can cause numbness, weakness and a lack of coordination.
The actor revealed her diagnosis in 2018 but believes she’s lived with the condition for decades. Blair, who shares a son with her ex-partner, fashion designer Jason Bleick, said Tuesday that she hasn’t “given up on romance,” however.
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“I just think in terms of my son, you know?” Blair clarified. “And also, again, my health — like who’s going to understand if I get tired and need to take a nap? … So it’s hard, it’s hard to find that person.”
As for the contents of her kitchen before she became the mother of an actual child instead of a pop star, Blair acknowledged she probably had “a bottle of champagne and a Fig Newton in the fridge” at the time — and took another cheeky dig at Williams.
“So he judged accurately that I wasn’t the one that was gonna nourish him,” she said.