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its users of energy, focus, belief and ambition, was the last thing he needed, as he was positively overflowing with all those virtues. As Taboo
said, Will emitted an ‘invincible aura that screamed: “I’m going to be somebody”.’ Even the way Will dressed, Taboo said, absolutely shone with ‘fire and
hunger’. Extensive cannabis use would surely dampen that ardour.
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    When he was twenty, Will fell in love for the first time. It was an association that developed into an eight-year-long relationship, and not one that was entirely enjoyable.
During the relationship, when ‘things got hard’, the couple even went to a relationship counsellor, who encouraged them to do activities together. One of these was to cook food together
– ‘that’s why I know how to cook now’, said Will, looking back. ‘It wasn’t abusive, it was just destructive emotionally.’ He has been coy about the
identity of thewoman, only saying: ‘she still lives in the ghetto we came from, in Compton, LA’, and that: ‘she doesn’t care about entertainment, or
fashion, she’s just a real person’.
    As a result, the more famous Will became while they were together, the more uninterested she became in the world of celebrity. While Will appreciated her lack of interest in fame, the two were
pulling in different directions. Their split was inevitable but, even after it, Will felt that what they had would, in a sense, last for ever. ‘I will always love my ex-girlfriend,’ he
later told the
Guardian
. ‘She’ll get married, but that love we had, regardless of exclusivity, is beyond that. Love lasts for ever.’ He would even go on to offer her a
slice of the profits from one of the songs she inspired.
    Some of Will’s views on sex and sexuality have been highly controversial. He has, more recently, made some rather prim and prudish statements about it, and it is worth briefly stepping
forward in the story to connect them. He was asked what would guarantee to put him off a woman. ‘If she had condoms in her house, that would just fuckin’ throw me off,’ he said.
‘That’s just tacky.’ Some women found this statement highly offensive. At the time, his female interviewer took him up on his outburst, asking him why he was so offended by the
thought of a woman taking precautions. ‘I just think, like, if you’re into someone and you guys get to that level, then that’s something youshould converse
about together and say, “Hey, maybe we should get some”,’ he said.
    Outraged women asked who he thought he was to suggest there was something wrong with them having contraceptives. Others felt his views were arcane or misogynistic. However they really seem to
hint at the contradictions that make Will such an intriguing character. As far as some of his fans are concerned, his contradictions and complexities survive to this day – they are what make
Will such a vulnerable, and therefore attractive, character.
    Even before he was famous, Will was building a reputation for himself not only as a promising musician and performer, but also as an attractive character of dazzling influence. Together, these
gifts would take him far. It was his mother who continued to influence him as he formed his musical energies into a three-piece unit, into a successful band, then fashioned that into a
world-conquering supergroup. ‘My mom keeps me down to earth,’ he said. ‘I’d hate for my mom to see me act like a dick, so I try not to act like a dick.’ Not that he
would use such language in front of Debra. As he told
The New York Times
: ‘When I get around my mom, all my cuss words are deleted from my vocabulary. Automatically, they just
leave.’
    It was Debra’s example that lit the spark to the forcefield of motivational charisma that has come to serve Will sowell. She was the first to lift him from the
surroundings he was born into. First, she did so emotionally, by encouraging him to stay positive and not fall into