Debbie Gibson is looking back at some of her biggest career highlights.
"I remember getting the call, because I was doing a lot of background acting work as a kid because I just wanted to be there. I was the birthday girl.... We filmed all throughout the middle of the night, at Tavern on the Green. And my whole family and I went to the 69-cent movie theater in town and waited for my one second of glory. When we saw me on the screen, we all screamed and everybody in the theater was like, shut up!...
"It's so interesting seeing that version of myself back then, because I truly am the same person. But just more evolved, like I don't think I've lost any of the joy that I see in that 16-year-old girl. And that's what's really fun about this chapter. Because I go into everything with that same enthusiasm that I had back there. Like, I still have a studio in my house now. And I made a lot of my last two albums in that room in the same very personal way.
"I just lived and breathed for that role...I had no other life. And that's how I wanted it. I'm so proud of the work I did in that. I see it back and I'm like, 'Oh my god, I was in!' It's astounding to me, because it's one of the greatest musicals of all time, in my opinion."in the West End in London. And I had never lived away from home, like, by myself. So that was kind of my year abroad, my college year. And to be in the musicalto play Sandy...
"Caitlyn Jenner was on this season with me... and all the Jenner girls were always around in the dressing room. They were little.... It was such a fun experience. I mean, I feel like most little girls sit in their bedroom and they watch the Olympics, and they envision themselves as that skater on the podium winning the medal. I was no different. I was terrible. I was never very athletic. But I definitely wanted to give it a try."for me. I have dealt with Lyme disease for over a decade.
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