Debbie Gibson has a delicate spot for fellow former teen pop star Britney Spears.
The “Only in My Dreams” singer, 52, shared that she needs nothing however the perfect for Spears, who has skilled years of upheaval, together with being put underneath a 13-year conservatorship that ended final yr.
āItās very easy to kind of mock her social media posts,ā Gibson instructed Page Six. āBut I see somebody who is joyful and just dying to get out of that bubble. Sheās a natural performer, so if she has to perform in her living room, on social media, thatās what sheās going to do.ā
While Spears can usually be discovered posting movies of herself dancing at home, Gibson says she’s hopeful the “Stronger” singer will make her approach again to performing dwell for her hundreds of thousands of followers at some point quickly.
“I hope she finds her stage again,ā Gibson said.
Gibson, who skyrocketed to fame in the ’80s as a teen pop star with songs like “Foolish Beat” and “Shake Your Love,” credits her protective parents with keeping her safe during her days of music superstardom. Gibson’s mom, the late music manager Diane Gibson, shielded her daughter from the darker side of the industry.
āI jokingly but not jokingly say she literally threw her body in front of anybody that was out to cause me any kind of harm, and she prevented any sort of #MeToo situation from happening,ā Gibson continued. āIt didnāt always get her brownie points but got her a lot of respect, and it protected me. So, Iām really lucky that I had protective parents that didnāt want anything from me but for me to turn out sane and happy and healthy.ā
While her mom died in January of this year, Gibson still has a strong relationship with her father, with whom she’s very close. The duo even take to Instagram collectively now and again for dwell movies.
āIām very lucky because I had my mom and my dad. I spoke to my dad last night, and he is one of my favorite people in the world, and I have a great relationship with him,” said Gibson, carefully alluding to the troubled relationship between Britney and her father, Jamie Spears, who placed his daughter under a conservatorship back in 2008.
Following her mother’s death back in January, Gibson shared an emotional Instagram essay about how her mom managed to skyrocket her daughter to teen superstardom without extensive knowledge of the music industry.
āDiane loved fiercely, protected those she cared about with every fiber of her being, and with no college education and no showbiz connections went on to become a bold and groundbreaking music manager in what was a manās world,ā she wrote. “Self-taught and street smart, a force of nature and the OG āMomager,ā guided by her intuition, love of music, and the desire to help see my vision to its fullest potential, she stopped at nothing to help get my music heard leaving an undeniable mark on the world and its cultural landscape. I quite literally couldnāt have done any of this without her.”
Gibson said that the important thing to her relationship together with her mother was that Diane’s focus remained on her daughter always.
“She did not care about her reputation as much as she cared about me turning out sane and healthy. We went through all the ups and downs and twists and turns of a true partnership but our relationship landed at the most loving and lovely juncture,” she wrote.