Former Boyzone singer Ronan Keating has revealed that his wife Storm agreed with him, when he said that he feels he comes across badly in the new Boyzone documentary.
In a new interview, Keating admitted that he felt more fearful after watching it, than he did making it.
The documentary, titled: Boyzone: No Matter What, looks at the band's remarkable rise to fame, as well as the the day to day stresses of being in a boyband, featuring bandmembers Ronan Keating, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch, and Keith Duffy, as well as estranged manager Louis Walsh.
Speaking his reaction to the documentary, Ronan Keating said that he spoke to his wife Storm about how she thought he was portrayed in it.
"It had to be [as raw and open]. We had to tell the truth otherwise... what's the point? You know, it's just sugar coated and interviews... that's all. We had to dig deep", Ronan said.
He continued: 'It had to be [as raw and open]. We had to tell the truth otherwise... what's the point? You know, it's just sugar coated and interviews... that's all. We had to dig deep".
‘There's times where I watched it and I come out of it and go, “Why did I do this documentary?” When people talk about how ambitious I was, and, ruthless, and I think I wasn't ambitious and ruthless, but then I look back and go, “Maybe I was".
Elsewhere in this interview, Ronan Keating admitted that at several stages, he did not want the documentary to be released to the public domain.
‘Honest to God. You have no idea the amount of times I went up, I’d finished the three episodes, and I went, “I don't want this to go out. I don't want this to be seen.” I was scared, genuinely scared", he said.
It was at this point that Ronan said that his wife also felt he did not come out with a lot of credibility.
"And my wife [Storm], she's like, “Yeah, I mean, that's pretty heavy”, you know, she's even agreeing with me! So I'm thinking, “I'm not wrong. What am I doing?” But it has to [go out], you have to tell the truth and… oh what’s that phrase? “You gotta go there to come back”.
"I'm not proud of some of the decisions I made, but I think, I guess I can stand back now and, like you say, hold my hands up and go, “Yeah, I got it wrong”, he added.
The singer insisted: "But, I've still got three great friends. I still call them my friends. I can still call them at any moment. So, yeah, we're doing okay. We're doing all right".
Despite being nervous ahead of the release, Ronan Keating offered fans a little teaser as to what they can expect from this docuseries.
'It was a lot, it was very emotional, very tough... but I wanted the truth to be told. I wanted a film that was honest", he explained. "People don't make these sort of documentaries about a band like Boyzone, so it's pretty intense".
"I think it's a hard watch at times, you know, the ups and the downs, the losses, the fallouts in the band that people didn't know about. It's heartbreaking because, when you put a band on a pedestal and you look up to them, you want them to be perfect".
"You want them all to be getting all along, and you know, they talk about the brotherhood and the friendships, and you want it to be like that, but the harsh reality is, it's never like that".
'And, you know, we just told the truth. I love these boys to the moon and back where, you know, we're forever brothers. And there's times where we we just, we rub each other up the wrong way".
In the trailer, Louis Walsh, the band's former manager, admits that he fabricated stories about Boyzone to the press. Find out more here.
