Olivia Newton John makes peace with ONJ telemovie — but won’t watch it yet

OLIVIA Newton John is not endorsing Channel Seven’s ONJ telemovie, but she’s found a way to make “peace” with the project.

SUPERSTAR Olivia Newton John has “made peace” with Channel 7’s ONJ telemovie — but says she won’t watch it until 2019.

The biopic, which stars Delta Goodrem as Olivia, and premieres on Sunday, is not endorsed by Newton John. “It’s weird to have a movie made about you when you’re still alive,” Newton John told Confidential. And she wanted to remind people: “It’s a movie — it’s not me.”

DELTA GOODREM EMULATES OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN WEDDING

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Delta Goodrem as Olivia Newton-John. Picture: Channel 7

However, Newton John, in Melbourne to announce on Friday new initiatives for her annual Wellness Walk and Research Run, said she’s “made peace” with the two-part telemovie.

“I made a decision,” she said. “In life, if you’re fighting something, or resisting something,

it just causes stress inside you. I thought: ‘I’m going to go with the flow.’

Newton John said if any money emanates from the biopic or soundtrack album, she will put it into the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre at the Austin Hospital.

“In that way, I made peace with the movie,” she said. Asked if she will watch the biopic, Newton John replied: “I’ll wait a year.”

But she said with a smile: “I just hope it tells the good bits. I hope it’s a story about hope, positivity and moving through stuff and getting to the other side. I hope it’s about how lucky I’ve been and how grateful I am.”

Newton John is currently fighting her second battle with breast cancer. She said music has been an incredible healer.

“Every time I’ve gone through a difficult time in my life I’ve written an album,” she said. “I’ve been sitting down at the piano, lately — when I have a moment.”