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Olivia: Cannabis is helping to win my cancer fight
Daily Express
27 Jan 2020
By James Desborough
Olivia and niece, left, and with Travolta in Grease. Inset, the pair reunited
LOOKING fit and well, music icon Olivia Newton-John is winning her fight against breast cancer.
And she puts the turnaround down to medicinal cannabis and other natural remedies.
The admission came just before the actress walked down the red carpet with niece Tottie Goldsmith at the G’day USA gala in Los Angeles, to be reunited with John Travolta.
Olivia, 71, and Travolta, 65, co-starred in the 1978 hit movie Grease.
The Australian star told how she is beating the killer disease, insisting: “I don’t see it as a battle.”
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Olivia called her fightback as “so incredible”, saying: “My tumours are receding or they’re going away or they’re staying the same. On a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that’s pretty amazing.
“If I hadn’t had the experience I’m having with cannabis I wouldn’t be able to talk about it.”
Explaining why she’s advocating its use, the singer said: “For me the proof is in the pudding and I’m the pudding.”
She said that it has helped her with both “pain and sleep”, with her cancer having spread to her lower back.
Olivia has been a passionate advocate of medicinal cannabis, with her Cancer and Wellness Centre launching trials this year. She has also spent time lobbying the Australian government to approve the treatment.
Olivia was diagnosed with her third bout of cancer in 2017 after she was successfully cured of the disease in 1992 and 2013.
In Melbourne in October the actress told well-wishers: “I’m right here, right now, alive and healthy.”
She said she had been “flat on my back” but through treatment and medicinal cannabis, she was feeling fantastic. “I hope to be able to soon offer that to everyone – that’s my dream.”
The cannabis has been grown for her by her husband, John Easterling, in their Santa Barbara home in California.
Before turning to the herb she described as a “safe alternative”, Olivia said she went through “months and months of excruciating, sleep-depriving, crying-outloud pain”. She said she weened herself off morphine with cannabis, and doctors had supported her.
IT’S great news that much-loved singer Olivia Newton-John seems to be winning her cancer battle. Less orthodox is that the Grease star ascribes it to medicinal cannabis. Alongside other natural remedies, she says her cannabis regime has bought her back from the brink and that her tumours are dormant or receding. We can’t endorse Olivia’s choice of medicine but it’s surely worthy of research.
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DAILY MIRROR
(Northern Ireland)
27 Jan 2020
BY ADAM ASPNALL BY NICOLA METHVEN TV Editor
HAPPY & HEALTHY Olivia at gala on Saturday. Inset, John Travolta was also there THE ONES THAT I WANT With John and niece Tottie
OLIVIA Newton-john says she is winning her third battle with breast cancer, thanks to medicinal cannabis.
The 71-year-old told how the herbal treatment has helped contain the stage four disease, which returned three years ago in her lower back.
Olivia looked fit and healthy as she appeared on the red carpet with Grease co-star John Travolta, 65, at the G’day USA gala in Beverly Hills on Saturday.
The actress and singer said: “My tumours are receding or they’re going away or they’re staying the same. On a stage four metastatic breast cancer that’s pretty amazing. I don’t see it as a battle. I am winning.”
Olivia is pushing for the wider use of cannabis as a medicine. She added: “For me the proof is in the pudding and I’m the pudding.
“If I hadn’t had the experience I’m having with cannabis I wouldn’t be able to talk about it.”
The mum-of-one’s Cancer & Wellness Centre in her native Australia is launching trials of cannabis as a medicine. She has also lobbied the government there to approve its use.
She said in October: “I hope to be able to offer that treatment to everyone.” Olivia first beat cancer in 1992 then again in 2013.
The cannabis she uses is grown by husband John Easterling at their Santa Barbara home in California. She claimed doctors were supportive of the treatment.
Olivia added: “It’s not a drug. It’s a herb and a plant.”
Niece Tottie Goldsmith joined her and John at the G’day USA gala, which promotes links between America and Australia.
Olivia, made a dame last year, is due to perform with singer John Farnham at the Fire Fight Australia bushfire charity concert in Sydney on February 16.
It will be her first time on stage since cancelling all tour plans after her most recent illness.
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DAILY MAIL
I’m battling cancer with cannabis, says Olivia
Daily Mail
27 Jan 2020
By Xantha Leatham
Illness: Olivia Newton- John
DAME Olivia Newton-John has said she is beating cancer for the third time – with the help of medicinal cannabis.
The 71-year-old is battling stage 4 metastatic breast cancer and claimed natural remedies are improving her health.
The Grease star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, having a partial mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. It returned in 2013, but she recovered again.
In 2018 a new diagnosis revealed the cancer had spread to her spine, and she was forced to postpone a concert tour. Stage 4 cancer – where it has spread within the body – is very difficult to treat. But in an ‘incredible’ turn of events, the singer said the cancer is ‘going away’. She told The Sunday Telegraph in her native Australia: ‘My tumours are receding or they’re going away or they’re staying the same... that’s pretty amazing.’
Dame Olivia previously revealed that she uses cannabis oil grown by her husband John Easterling to combat the illness. She said it has helped with pain after the cancer spread to her lower back.
The singer added: ‘I know lots of people who have been given a really terrible diagnosis who have done really well with the right treatment – and they’re not always chemo and radiation either.’
She plans to continue lobbying federal government in Australia to legalise cannabis for medicinal use. In the UK, it can be legally prescribed by doctors where there is evidence of medicinal benefit.
‘Helps with pain’
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