Robin Gibb’s Irish-born wife Dwina Murphy Gibb investigated alternative treatments in a desperate effort to save her husband, who has just passed away from liver cancer.
The self described Celtic druidess tried what she called spider medicine to save him.
She received it from medicine men from a Florida Indian tribe that she claimed saved her life when she was bitten by a poisonous spider.
She said, “I was very sick and had a temperature of 103F. I was finally cured after meeting the medicine men.
“Robin and I befriended them after Hurricane Andrew in 1992 when we helped them rebuild their lives.
“This incredible Indian tribe introduced Robin and I to something called ‘Spider Medicine’ that apparently contains properties that can help you get well from certain untreatable illnesses.
“They offered to help us both if we were ever very ill again and in need of their Spider Medicine.” It apparently contains properties that can help you get well from certain untreatable illnesses,” Dwina said.
Though Robin earned fame and fortune from his years with the Bee Gees, Dwina also made her mark. A native of Co. Tyrone, she’s a bisexual writer, artist, playwright, ordained Druid priestess, lover of Irish history and owner of two Irish wolfhounds.
The couple, married for 29 years and parents of a 28-year-old son, had a colorful life.
They talked about having an “open” marriage in the past, and indeed their relationship was wide open a few years back when Robin fathered a daughter with their former housekeeper who is in her mid-thirties.
Dwina was said to be furious over the eight-year affair and the birth of Snow Robin, now three. But the marriage survived and mother and child live in luxury not far from the Gibbs’ main base in Oxfordshire, England.
When asked last year about his marriage to Dwina, Robin said, “AlI I can say about that is it’s rock-solid and that’s the most important thing to me. I’ve never felt anything different.”
Prior to his illness being revealed, Robin was working on a classical piece of music called “The Titanic Requiem” to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ill-fated Belfast-built luxury liner. It was due to be played at the Royal Albert Hall in London this year.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.IrelandNorth | May 23, 2012, 08:08 AM EDT
Northern Ireland IS northern IRELAND. It's not western Britain. Whether you're from Ulster/Northern Ireland (NI) - Munster/southern Ireland (SI) - Leinster/eastern Ireland (EI) or Connacht/western Ireland (WI), you're still Irish - not least to the British! Whether those British be English, Welsh or Scottish. And you can paddle your own canoe from Lower Lough Erne in County Fermanagh down the Shannon river bordering Leinster/EI and Connacht/WI to the border with Munster/SI. And Dwina Ní Mhurcú sounds very Irish to me.
Byrne P | May 22, 2012, 04:46 PM EDT
To (bythebay)Obviously never left San Francisco, Co Tyrone is in IRELAND - One of the 6 counties of Ulster and people like my family have lived there for hundreds of years and we are 100% IRISH - The O'Neills and the Byrnes
Byrne P | May 22, 2012, 04:31 PM EDT
I also was born in Co Tyrone and I am Irish and I also live in England, I have the right of those in Northern Ireland to have both British & Irish citizenship as enshrined in the Good Friday agreement
Bythebay | May 22, 2012, 01:54 PM EDT
Dwina was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland UK, lives in Oxfordshire, England, is a British citizen. She's not Irish.
sirpeter | May 22, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT
Bythebay.Quote"She was born in the UK so she is English?"Unquote.So everyone who is born in Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland are English? Are you unwell?
Byrne P | May 22, 2012, 12:29 PM EDT
Dwina was born in Co Tyrone, therefore she is Irish, she is not English
Bythebay | May 22, 2012, 10:14 AM EDT
seanomelb, she lives in England, was born in the UK, she's English. You in Australia are part of the British Commonwealth.
cuddlybuddly | May 22, 2012, 03:04 AM EDT
contempt, hatred are well known causes of cancer. Don't hate, let it go...
TayandCake | May 21, 2012, 10:24 PM EDT
bythebay, you're a sad, bitter, pathetic old crank.
tombegs | May 21, 2012, 08:59 PM EDT
I have only contempt for anyone who mocks someone who is watching a loved one dying from incurable liver cancer (sadly, always fatal) and clings to any hope for a recovery. Hope does indeed make all of do seemingly strange things.
seanomelb | May 21, 2012, 07:59 PM EDT
bythebay clutching at straws again Dwina has dual citizenship nuff said.
sirpeter | May 21, 2012, 07:37 PM EDT
Bythebay.Dwina Murphy Gibb has a lifelong interest in Irish history and mythology.Dwina was co-founder of The Yeats Club which organized poetry competitions and published Celtic Dawn, the international literary magazine.Her short stories have been included in a collection of Irish folk stories.She is the owner of a Great Dane named Rocky and two Irish wolfhounds, Paddy and Mistletoe.I think it's safe to say she would consider herself Irish and not British as both are legitimate under the GFA.She also automatically has Irish citizenship by birthright.I think her heart is Irish don't you?So yes she is Irish born NOT British born and with a name like Murphy.Very Irish.You can be want you want though.A British idiot.
Bythebay | May 21, 2012, 03:17 PM EDT
Another very sad story but Dwina Murphy Gibb was born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland UK, lives in England. She's British, subject of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She wasn't born in Ireland.
sidhemajik | May 21, 2012, 03:12 PM EDT
There are a lot of different healing treatments outside the mainstream medical practices. I have no problem with people exploring alternatives to western medicine at all. But I also believe that when it's your time to go, you will go. May he rest in peace.
lyoness555 | May 21, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT
OK Indian cures are the best , this I know but she should have been giving Robin a tincture of the BINDWEED plant . One lady had cancer of ovaries and a shaman told her to take bindweed she had a swollen belly tumor had spread everywhere after taking BINDWEED for a month tumor was gone and swelling went away .
jetsnoone | May 21, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT
He was real scarry looking toward the end.
cajuntom | May 21, 2012, 12:39 PM EDT
Very sad.......but it's apparent she didn't know about the Maple Syrup and Baking Soda cancer cure. It works like a charm.
faberm1 | May 21, 2012, 12:10 PM EDT
Desperate people go to desperate measures. HOWEVER.... native Americans do have many many cures that are misunderstood or unknown by white people. They always had a cure for malaria (quinine) before we "discovered" it.
ellenfromcork | May 21, 2012, 10:10 AM EDT
She's a "bisexual writer"? Does that mean she writes about men and women?
joma5004 | May 21, 2012, 09:51 AM EDT
She must have forgotten to do the ritual dance used with the treatment.