Scottish singer Lulu claims her late former husband Maurice Gibb potentially fathered a child with another woman during their six-year marriage. 

The star made the astonishing statement while appearing on the latest installment of The Louis Theroux Podcast, during which she discussed her marriage to the Bee Gees star and subsequent romances with pop legend David Bowie and hair stylist John Frieda. 

Lulu, 77, who separated from Gibb in 1973 before the couple had any children, told Theroux she had ‘just found out’ and had irrefutable proof that the musician secretly fathered a son through a brief fling.  

‘I think he’s got a son,’ she said. ‘It might have happened when we were married. I just found out. 

‘Someone showed me something and I can’t remember the year he impregnated this girl after a one night stand and he has a son who has had his genes taken. It’s proven. He’s a hundred per cent Maurice’s.’

Gibb, who died in 2003 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Miami home, has two known children, daughter Samantha and son Adam, with his second wife Yvonne Spenceley. 

Lulu claims her late former husband Maurice Gibb potentially fathered a child with another woman during their six-year marriage

But in 2019, Nick Endacott-Gibb, who was given up for adoption as a baby, claimed that he is the biological son of the British performer and band studio manager Patti Nolder, after a DNA test provided a ‘100 per cent match’ with Maurice’s son Adam.

But Nick said particular members of the family were still questioning his claims.

‘For some reason some members of the family still want to publicly cast doubt on the validity of my DNA result from two years ago, rather than listening to the music I’m creating which surely speaks for itself,’ he said at the time. 

After searching for his biological parents his entire life, Nick met Patti in 2003, and discovered she worked with the Bee Gees as a studio manager, enjoying a close relationship with the band – Gibb brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice.

Nick, who was raised by a middle-class family in Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, believed that his father was Chris Andrews, frontman of the Sixties rock band Fleur de Lys, but a DNA test in 2009 came back negative.

But after Patti’s sister told him Gibb was his biological father, he took three separate facial recognition tests which showed there was a high chance the pair were related. One returned a match percentage of 95.2.

Gibb’s widow Yvonne refused his request for a DNA test, despite years of begging.

However, having sent a saliva test to an online genealogy firm, he was shocked to discover that Gibb’s son Adam had provided his own DNA to website Ancestry.co.uk years previously – and the match gave Nick the answers he needed. 

Speaking to Theroux about the likelihood of Gibb fathering a son during their marriage, Lulu said she hadn’t looked into when he was born ‘because it wasn’t that important’.

‘I think I used to take myself way too seriously,’ she added. ‘I know you’re surprised at that, but it’s true, I think. 

‘And it’s painful when you take yourself too seriously or when you see the world black and white because there are many grey areas and I’ve learned through trial and tribulation. 

‘You know, I’ve had unbelievable highs, but I’ve also had a lot of lows, which most people have in their life. For God’s sake, I’m no different to anybody else in that respect. 

‘So I’ve looked at it, I’ve wanted to know why. I’m always curious and I think that’s probably helped me to survive all the ups and the downs in my life.’ 

Lulu’s marriage to Gibb officially ended in 1975 two years after they separated (pictured together in 1969)

Nick Endacott-Gibb (pictured left), who was given up for adoption as a baby, claimed in 2019 that he is the biological son of the British performer (pictured right) and band studio manager Patti Nolder, after a DNA test provided a ‘100 per cent match’ with Maurice’s son Adam

The couple married at Gerrards Cross Church in Buckinghamshire on February 18, 1969 (pictured)

Gibb, who died in 2003 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his Miami home, has two known children, daughter Samantha and son Adam, with his second wife Yvonne Spenceley (pictured with Yvonne and Adam in 1979)

Following her 1975 divorce, Lulu would embark on a relationship with celebrity stylist John Frieda – but the romance would be tested by a short-lived affair with David Bowie, then at the peak of his powers as one of the defining artists of the 1970s. 

‘I had a brief relationship with him, we had a fling,’ she said of her connection to Bowie, admitting Frieda ‘knew, and it was an issue’.

She would reunite with Gibb onstage in 2002, a year before his death, after inviting her ex-husband to perform on her star-studded TV special, An Audience With… Lulu. 

‘I sort of knew in my heart that he would probably jump and he did,’ she recalled. ‘But Maurice was a very sweet guy though. You know I didn’t want to use him, but I was using him. You know what, now I’m glad because it touched people’s hearts. 

‘They saw a vulnerable side in him and I and in our relationship. It was also a chance for me to honour Maurice by himself without his brothers. And now I’m so glad I got to do that.’

She added: ‘You know, sometimes in ending a relationship, you don’t say all that you wanted to say or you don’t explain yourself, or there’s confusion or there’s misunderstandings. It seemed to close the circle. 

‘He was very pleased because he always felt the lesser of the three. And him being on the show by himself with me, gave him respect, you know, it was respectful.’ 

The full interview is available to watch on The Louis Theroux Podcast, out now.