Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress and philanthropist, died Monday, Aug. 8 at the age of 73 after a long struggle with breast cancer. Newton-John is survived by her husband, John Easterling, who announced the sad news via her official Facebook page, and her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi.
“Dame Olivia Newton-John (73) passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time,” Easterling posted Monday afternoon. “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer. Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund (ONJFoundationFund.org).”
Beloved by film fans for her performance as Sandy in the 1978 musical Grease, Newton-John initially rose to stardom as a singer, winning two Grammy Awards for her 1974 country single “I Honestly Love You” and scoring the top single of 1982 with her pop hit “Physical.”
A tireless advocate for breast cancer awareness and treatment since her own first diagnosis in 1992, the entertainer was the founder of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia.
Known for her blond beauty and a sweet, girl-next-door demeanor that hearkened back to a more innocent time, Newton-John was born in Oxford, England, in 1948. When she was 5 years old, she relocated with her parents and two older siblings to Melbourne, where her WWII codebreaker father, Brinley Newton-John, served as the headmaster of Ormond College. (Olivia’s grandfather on her mother Irene’s side was also a professor: Max Born, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics.)
As a junior in high school when her album “ Let Me Be There “came out I had the biggest school boy crush on Olivia. R.I.P.
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My own wife wars against this monster, and she is rooted in the Lord so either way, she will win.
“I’m so lucky that I’ve been through this three times and I’m still here,” she said. “I’m living with it. Every day is a gift”
-Olivia Newton John
My wife, and many who like her try to heal, can take heart in these words, as should we all.
None of us are guaranteed a time.
Not even the next minute.
So every day is indeed a gift.
And every day draws us one day closer to the Lord.
“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
1 Corinthians 5:1
“We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 5:8
God Bless he family and all who suffer this scourge, and be confident that beyond this mortal coil there lies more than memory.
God Bless,
SNS
https://youtu.be/iomJPCzL_I0
Having lost my wife to cancer 18 months ago, I know the battle well. I’ve seen all the ugly. May the family find peace.
Happy trails Olivia
PS – I’ve never liked musicals.
God bless you and your wife, SNS. Knowing that we go to be with our Lord makes all the difference.
RIP – She was a class act. She was on The Truth About Cancer talking about her holistic treatment. It kept her alive for decades.
Well, maybe The Music Man
Anonymous SubPrime
AUGUST 8, 2022 AT 4:52 PM
“Having lost my wife to cancer 18 months ago, I know the battle well.”
God bless you for fighting that fight at her side, for having the strength to see it through, and the spirit to carry on in her wake.
It cannot be easy and the pain must be great even now, but the joy of your reunion with the Lord to reunite you forever in flesh incorruptible will be greater still.
“13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
May the Lord comfort you, now and always,
SNS
RIP
And yet, hrc persists
Anonymous
AUGUST 8, 2022 AT 5:13 PM
“And yet, hrc persists”
…HER breasts are full of bile.
As she requested.
“LADY MACBETH.
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!'”
-Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, Act 1, Scene V
HARD TO FIND A PHOTO OF THIS CLASSY LADY WITHOUT A SMILE ON HER FACE
RIP
Beautiful woman, inside and out. RIP
Olivia you are an inspiration to all of us who knows someone who battles this ugly disease.
May you RIP songbird 🙏🕊️❤️
My folks took my sister & me to see Grease at our long gone drive-in movie theater. I was in love(still) with Olivia Newton-John & wanted to be John Travolta. Good & better times back then. R.I.P. lovely lady!
Barry Gibb must be devastated. They have been friends for decades.