With the announcement of Gibb's death, his ex-wife Kim Reeder was not surprised, "I always knew that one day I'd get a call with news like this," she said. "It was only a matter of time".[18] The Gibb family would also maintain it was not an overdose that killed Andy—as some papers suggested—but natural causes after years of drug and alcohol abuse.[17]
Gibb's body was returned to the United States where he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. The headstone reads Andy Gibb / March 5, 1958 - March 10, 1988 / "An Everlasting Love".[