Olivia Newton-John announces that the 2019 Wellness Walk and Research Run has raised more than $1 million for the first time ever!
Olivia Newton-John visits Access Daily and tells hosts Kit Hoover, Scott Evans and Mario Lopez that her cancer treatment is working and she's doing fantastic! And, the actress shows off her iconic "Grease" original outfits and personal memorabilia she's auctioning through Julien's Auctions (https://www.juliensauctions.com/about...) to raise money for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Australia.
It's been more than 41 years since "Grease" hit theaters, but Olivia Newton-John remembers the film like it was yesterday! In a fun round of "Backstage Banter," Access Hollywood co-host Zuri Hall quizzed the movie icon on all things Rydell High – from the place Danny and Sandy first met, to the exact food they ordered to eat at the diner, to what a hickey from Kenickie is like!
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L'interview sur la toile d'ONJ et Chloe
EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Newton-John and her daughter Chloe Lattanzi: "Every moment is precious"
Olivia Newton-John and her daughter Chloe treasure every moment together. In an exclusive interview with The Australian Women's Weekly, Samantha Trenoweth shares their mother-daughter time at their rural northern NSW retreat.
https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/olivia-newton-john-daughter-60043
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.@SavannahGuthrie received a special message from the one and only Olivia Newton-John! pic.twitter.com/VaGvc8a0W7— TODAY (@TODAYshow) 31 octobre 2019
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.@Ginger_Zee - @olivianj thinks you look GREAT in those skates! #HalloweenOnGMA https://t.co/TMgO2GAFaW pic.twitter.com/OXXGAquL3B— Good Morning America (@GMA) 31 octobre 2019
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Le Daily Miror et le New zealand Herald !
Olivia Newton-John is telling me why she was going to turn down Grease. “There were a couple of reasons why I didn’t want to do it,” explains the 71-year-old.
“I’d just made a movie that was a total disaster, and didn’t want to jeopardise a musical career that was taking off by making another bad film. Oh, and I was worried that I was too old.”
Throwing back her tousled blonde head, the Australian actress bursts out laughing.
“I was 29 — and convinced I was way too old to be playing a 17-year-old. Of course, now I look back and think, ‘What was I worried about?’ ”
Joyous incredulity seems to be Newton-John’s default emotion today. After all, we’re sitting in Julien’s Auction House, Beverly Hills, surrounded by more than 40 years’ worth of the star’s memorabilia.
In pride of place is the black leather jacket and skin-tight trouser combo from Grease’s closing scene (expected to fetch US$200,000) and, to our left, Sandy’s Pink Ladies jacket.
There’s the custom-made 50s lace gown she wore to the 1978 premiere of Grease in Los Angeles, costumes from Newton-John’s cult-classic Xanadu, her Physical tour dress and a wall of music awards collected by the fourtime Grammy award-winning singer over the years.
If all that weren’t enough to feel joyously incredulous about, there’s the memory of her old friend John Travolta “coming to see me and convincing me to do it [ Grease] — because I honestly didn’t think I was going to. And when I asked for a screen test to see if we had the chemistry needed, that test cemented it.”
The Cambridge-born daughter of an MI6 officer can’t quite believe that Randal Kleiser’s raunchy teen homage to the 50s went on to take US$400 million at the box office, making it one of the highest-grossing musical films of all time — and Newton-John an overnight global sensation.
Or that the gaggle of crossgenerational cameraphonewielding fans assembled outside the auction house now are trying to get a shot of her.
But, perhaps most of all, Newton-John is joyous and incredulous that she’s here now, “and doing great”, despite the stage four breast cancer diagnosis she was given in May 2017, when the illness she started battling in 1992 was revealed to have metastasised to her sacrum.
“I don’t like that word ‘battling’,” she frowns — a slender, ageless figure in a black leather jacket. “I’ve never seen cancer as a fight or a battle. In fact, over the decades I’ve kind of befriended it — and right now I’m asking it to leave. Because instead of picking a fight with my body, I would rather keep calm and thank it for everything it has done for me.
“I’m sure that sounds strange to someone who isn’t in my position. But I’ve had this since 1992, on and off, and been through all these different stages. I’ve been vegan and macrobiotic and I went for many months without sugar . . . ”
But a lot of those things felt like punishments? “Yes! And I’m not saying they don’t work, but everybody has to choose their own path.”
The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre she founded in Melbourne in 2008 explores every one of those paths, from wellness programmes to breakthrough therapies.
But in terms of pain relief, one thing has worked above all else for Newton-John, and that’s medicinal marijuana. Were it not for the tincture that John Easterling, her herbalist husband of 11 years, makes for her, theshe would have found it impossible to wean herself off the morphine she was forced to take when she fractured her sacrum.
“And it was hard. But the tinctures really help. Nobody has ever died of cannabis, but opiates are killing people every day.”
Then there’s the attitude she has chosen to adopt in so many areas of her life, despite having experienced hardship: the loss of her elder sister, Rona, from a brain tumour; and the disappearance of longterm cameraman boyfriend Patrick McDermott, who vanished on a fishing trip off the Californian coast in 2005 — and whom investigators have since alleged isn’t dead, but living in Mexico.
“Right now, I do things that give me pleasure and joy,” she shrugs. “I eat healthily, but if I want a piece of chocolate or a cookie, I’ll have one — because it makes me happy.” Meanwhile, growing up in her mother’s shadow hasn’t been easy for 33-year-old Chloe Rose Lattanzi — Newton-John’s child from her marriage to actor Matt Lattanzi. And the actress and singer has spoken out about the issues she has suffered: anorexia, depression and substance abuse. NewtonJohn is the first to acknowledge how hard it must have been for her daughter.
“The other day, she said to me, ‘Mum, I had my own form of cancer, so we can heal together.’ Which I thought was really beautiful. But she’s on top of things, and I’m so proud of her.”
Danke Kay !
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