Barry Gibb about Abush

London, 30 June 2017

1. Tilt up Barry Gibb

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Barry Gibb, recording artist:

(Reporter: "Obviously you've been in the news recently because you made a confession. Are you finding you're getting a lot of support from fans?")

"You know, I don't tend to look at anything myself. I don't read things and it wasn't really a confession. I was in the middle of an interview and I was talking about the Isle of Man and really early childhood and it just came out. So you know, it's something I'd never told anybody and it wouldn't be, what's the word, it just wouldn't be appropriate to continue that any longer. So whatever happened to me happened to me. But yeah, I reach out to the kids that it's happened to as well and that's really it. I can't really expand on it."

(Reporter: "No. I mean it's just important isn't it if you're in the public eye that you can help other people who are going through similar things.")

"It's important to say so. I think it's important to say this happened because there's a lot of people out there like that you know? And they get away with it. I wasn't going to tell anybody but it just sort of came out."

(Reporter: "Well done for being so brave.")

"No! I wasn't. Never realized it was going to come out of my mouth but there you go. Thank you."

3. Wide of Barry Gibb being interviewed

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BARRY GIBB COMMENTS ON RECENT INTERVIEW WHERE HE SAID HE WAS A VICTIM OF ATTEMPTED MOLESTATION AS A CHILD

Bee Gee Barry Gibb recently told British publication Radio Times that a man tried to molest him when he was four-years-old.

In the article, Gibb is quoted as saying "He didn't touch me, but other things happened and happened to other kids. And eventually they came and arrested him, and woke me up during the night."

Speaking at the Silver Clef awards in London on Friday (30 JUNE 2017), the 70-year-old admitted that the revelation was not pre-planned.

"It wasn't really a confession. I was in the middle of an interview and I was talking about the Isle of Man and really early childhood and it just came out. So you know, it's something I'd never told anybody and it wouldn't be, what's the word, it just wouldn't be appropriate to continue that any longer. So whatever happened to me happened to me. But yeah, I reach out to the kids that it's happened to as well and that's really it."

"I think it's important to say this happened because there's a lot of people out there like that you know?" he continued, "and they get away with it. I wasn't going to tell anybody but it just sort of came out."