Olivia Newton-John subject of gross online rumours
Olivia Newton-John fans have been shocked at claims she has “weeks to live”. But the star has this morning poked fun at the gruesome reports in a video.
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Olivia Newton-John has poked fun at gruesome reports she had weeks to live.
In a video posted on her social media, a healthy looking Newton-John paraphrased the famous Mark Twain quote: “The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated,” Newton-John said before laughing.
“I’m doing great. I want to wish all of you the happiest, healthiest 2019 that’s possible. Thank you all for your wonderful love and support for me and my Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.”
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Newton-John’s niece Tottie Goldsmith posted on Facebook last night “Just letting you know that Olivia is in great health. Thank you for your messages of concern but let’s leave that little rumour where it belongs.”
Happy New Year! Here’s to a wonderful 2019! Love & light, Olivia pic.twitter.com/1Nd2jIcRb1
— Olivia Newton-John (@olivianj) January 3, 2019
Newton-John’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi, who shut down her Instagram page last year, has had her public Facebook page flooded with fans concerned about her mother’s health.
The iconic singer, who turned 70 last year, is preparing for the American launch of her memoirs Don’t Stop Belivin’ in March.
It was released in Australia last September to coincide with her visit here for her annual charity walk.
Newton-John’s management earlier denied the tacky online rumours claiming she has weeks to live.
US gossip site Radar Online ran the claims on Boxing Day, which were belatedly picked up by several Australian sites today.
“Olivia’s bodily functions appear to be shutting down but she refuses to let go until she makes it through (daughter) Chloe’s wedding day,” a “source” told Radaronline.
The story includes a quote attributed to Newton-John, saying: “I refuse to die in a hospital room, I’ll go on my own terms, in our home and in my own bed, but not until Chloe says ‘I do’.”
The singer’s Facebook page called out the story as fake when it circulated last week, while her social media manager Randy Slovacek said yesterday: “We have stated over and over again publicly she’s feeling better. People just seem to want to believe some dramatic turn.”
Newton-John, who turned 70 last September, revealed her latest cancer diagnosis is actually her third time dealing with the disease.
While she went public with her 1992 diagnosis with breast cancer, and then that it had metastasised to her lower back in May 2017, she disclosed the cancer also returned in 2012 in her autobiography Don’t Stop Believin’, released last year.
“I insisted on additional testing and found the bump was actually a recurrence of my breast cancer,” Newton-John writes in her memoirs.
She kept the diagnosis secret and went to a clinic in Georgia “where they help people deal with illness in a natural way without prescription drugs.”
The singer said the oestrogen blocking medicine she was prescribed led to depression, so she relied on husband John Easterling’s Amazonian herb formulas and liaised with the oncology team at her Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne during her treatment.
“When I went back for a second CAT scan the tumour had reduced and we decided to keep an eye on it. Life went on.”
In the book Newton-John reveals she is having photon radiation therapy to tackle her third bout of cancer, again mixing natural therapies with conventional ones, but only had chemotherapy when initially diagnosed in 1992.
Easterling has also created his own strains of medicinal cannabis for his wife.
“This has helped me greatly with pain and sleep” she states of ‘much maligned’ plant, adding “my dream is that it won’t be long before everyone has access to this healing medicine”.
The singer visited Melbourne last September to promote the book and raise money for her beloved Wellness Centre with her annual walk.
The singer will release her autobiography in the US in March, and is expected to undertake a promotional campaign as she did in Australia during September.
“Cancer is something I will need to say on top of for the rest of my long life,” she wrote in the book.
“I truly believe this will be my final round with cancer. I truly believe it will be like last time and I will go on with my life.
“My dream is to see an end to cancer in my lifetime. I don’t believe in fighting cancer because that sets up images of battles and anger. I choose to see my body as winning, which is a much healthier mental picture.
“My ultimate goal is that one day we will be able to take a giant crane and remove the word ‘cancer’ from the building because the disease will be wiped off the planet. From that moment on, it will just be the Olivia Newton-John Wellness Centre. That would be a dream come true.”
Newton-John’s duets album with John Farnham, Friends for Christmas, returned to the Australian Top 10 for the third consecutive year last month.
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