Bee Gees star Barry Gibb's son was left homeless and eating from bin amid drug addiction
EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Gibb, first-born son of Barry Gibb and Linda Gibb, describes his battle with cocaine in a new podcast
The son of Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb was once left homeless after spiralling into drug addiction.
Stephen Gibb, first-born son of Barry Gibb and Linda Gibb, describes his battle with cocaine in a new podcast.
He reveals that at one point he was reduced to eating out of a dumpster.
He says: "I was living in my van or wherever I could land. If somebody let me crash on a couch I was fortunate.
"The thing for me that was mind blowing was the old saying, from Park Avenue to park bench.
"After I lost my gig with my band I was homeless. They throw away so much good food in studios and I remember eating out of the dumpster at the record plant praying nobody would see me. I remember thinking ‘This sucks’.”
Stephen, 46, who has turned his life around, now plays guitar and tours with his dad, the last survivor of the Bee Gees.
He also talked about growing up in a famous family beset by “problems”.
Former Bee Gees star Maurice Gibb had alcohol issues while Andy Gibb died in 1988 aged 30, his heart fatally weakened by years of cocaine abuse.
Speaking on the podcast Addiction Talks, Stephen says: “The first time I drank I was probably 14 and downed an entire bottle of Jack Daniels [and] blacked out.”
Eventually he moved on to drugs. However homelessness made him determined to recover: “It was either death, prison or a mental institution.”
His dad Barry formed the mega-successful Bee Gees in 1958 with his twin brothers Maurice and Robin.
The family grew up in Chorlton, Manchester and Brother Andy, became a solo act. The ban’s 1977 record Saturday Night Fever is the top soundtrack album ever.
Robin, died in 2012 aged 62 from liver and kidney failure after battling cancer. Maurice died in 2003 aged 53.
Barry, who knighted in 2018, is now 73 and lives in Miami.
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