It would have been easy and understandable for Robin to say that his heartache had driven him back to drinking, but he denied that this was the case. “It’s more selfish than that. It’s just literally being afraid. And you think, oh, this will ease the fear. And it doesn’t.” His list of fears consisted of a single entry: “Everything,” he said. “It’s just a general all-round arggghhh. It’s fearfulness and anxiety.”