'I wanted to give the ring back': Ayda Field admits she was left heartbroken after Robbie Williams banned her from planning their wedding
Ayda Field has admitted her 'heart sank' when Robbie Williams banned her from discussing wedding plans with him even though he'd just proposed.
The actress, 43, revealed that it took commitment-phobe Robbie, 48, three years to pop the question and then another six months before he was finally prepared to discuss wedding plans.
Yet in the interim, Ayda revealed she she 'wasn't allowed' to bring up the big day and confessed she considered giving back her ring and calling an end to their romance.
![Heartbroken: Ayda Field has admitted her 'heart sank' when Robbie Williams banned her from discussing wedding plans with him even though he'd just proposed](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/04/11/63089881-11278461-image-a-13_1664879916151.jpg)
Heartbroken: Ayda Field has admitted her 'heart sank' when Robbie Williams banned her from discussing wedding plans with him even though he'd just proposed
Ayda told the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast: 'We were together three years before he proposed and I think in his head that's how long it took him to even come round to that concept. There were three break-ups before that. But he got there.
'We got engaged and I wasn't allowed to mention the word wedding. Two weeks later, my girlfriend gave me wedding magazines and I brought them in to the house and he was like "What's that? Who said anything about a wedding?" My heart sank. I started in my head to think "Is this a ring, this is not ok, I'll give it back".
'Five or six months later he took me on a boat for my birthday as a surprise and he gave me a watch. On the watch it said "Set a date shipmate".
'I thought you had to set the date. And then he was like "No, you know what that means, let's set a date to get married".'
![Couple: The actress, 43, revealed it took commitment-phobe Robbie, 48, three years to pop the question and then six months before he was finally prepared to discuss wedding plans](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/04/11/63089715-11278461-image-a-15_1664879944254.jpg)
Couple: The actress, 43, revealed it took commitment-phobe Robbie, 48, three years to pop the question and then six months before he was finally prepared to discuss wedding plans
The only date free for the foreseeable future was just six weeks later, with the couple then planning the big day in speed and in secret so as not to jeopardise their magazine deal - with the guests arriving believing they were attending a James Bond themed party until just moments before the ceremony began.
The pair weren't even able to enjoy their honeymoon as Robbie had to work the following day.
Robbie and Ayda, who first met in 2006, celebrated 12 years of marriage in August and share Theodora, nine, Charlton, seven, Coco, three, and two-year-old Beau.
Yet Ayda revealed: 'I was like I really want to have a wedding where we get to really involve the family, and now we have kids, and properly do the thing. Like I want the bridal build up.
'I don't know if that's silly - we've been 12 years now married. I know it's pointless. It was so rushed. I kind of want to marinate in it.'
![Cute couple: Robbie and Ayda, who first met in 2006, celebrated 12 years of marriage in August and share Theodora, nine, Charlton, seven, Coco, three, and two-year-old Beau (pictured in 2010)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/04/11/63089959-11278461-image-m-12_1664879869708.jpg)
Cute couple: Robbie and Ayda, who first met in 2006, celebrated 12 years of marriage in August and share Theodora, nine, Charlton, seven, Coco, three, and two-year-old Beau (pictured in 2010)
Elsewhere in the chat, Ayda revealed warning lights and flags to beware of him went off in her head when they first met despite her knowing nothing about him - after he'd already stood her up over a first planned date.
She confessed: 'There were so many red flags dancing around Robbie Williams's head.
'I remember looking at him and thinking "Oh f**k, I think I'm going to fall in love with this boy". I kid you not, like something out of a cartoon, red flags were dancing above his head.
'It was like hazard lights, like warning lights, like "Do Not Enter", like superheroes flying in trying to catch me.'
Ayda went on to confess that she had never heard of Robbie before they were set up by mutual friends and had no clue what to expect.
![Meant to be: Elsewhere in the chat, Ayda revealed warning lights and flags to beware of him went off in her head when they first met despite her knowing nothing about him](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/04/11/63089949-11278461-image-a-11_1664879855500.jpg)
Meant to be: Elsewhere in the chat, Ayda revealed warning lights and flags to beware of him went off in her head when they first met despite her knowing nothing about him
She was left disappointed when he ended up ghosting her before their first meeting - despite his incessant calls to set up the date - yet forgave him when he rang her and said: 'To know me is to hate me, but you can't hate me until you know me, so you have to give me another chance.'
After giving him another chance the pair's first date got off to a rocky start yet they soon clicked.
She recalled: 'We're on this couch and we're talking and all of a sudden it was like "I had known him my whole life - he totally understand me, I understood this soul and this soul understands me".
'It was like a strike. But I didn't say anything because that would make me seem like a psycho.'
Ayda added that Robbie was then smitten when he saw her come to the jacuzzi in a bikini.
She said: 'Everyone's like "let's get into the jacuzzi". There's this girl "Let me lend you my bathing suit". She has like the sexiest bikini, like an Ursula Andress bikini. He is like "Woah".'
But when their relationship got more serious, Ayda said there were still many difficult times.
She continued: 'For the first few months Rob was not in a good way. I quickly learned what Off the Wagon meant. It didn't end for him well that date.'
Robbie's struggles with addiction will be at the forefront of his upcoming Netflix documentary.
The singer has editorial control over the content, which will be filmed inside his £17.5 million mansion in Kensington, London.
![One to watch: Robbie's struggles with addiction will be at the forefront of his upcoming Netflix documentary](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/10/04/11/63089993-11278461-image-a-14_1664879936201.jpg)
One to watch: Robbie's struggles with addiction will be at the forefront of his upcoming Netflix documentary
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