‘I chose the path to be grateful’: The legacy of Olivia Newton-John, the actress who died 30 years after cancer treatment

Movie star fat, Award-winning English actress and singer Olivia Newton-John passed away at the age of 73 on Monday (08/08).

In a brief statement, her husband, John Easterling, said that the singer died Monday morning on her ranch in California, in the United States. “Olivia has been a symbol of victory and hope for over 30 years, as she shares her journey with breast cancer,” the statement read on behalf of the family. “We ask everyone to respect the family’s privacy during this very difficult time.”

To the BBC, the artist’s director confirmed that she had died of cancer.

Newton John achieved commercial success in the 1970s as a singer country Millions of records were sold. But it was her role as Sandy in writing a movie fat Which brought her to world fame. The film achieved the biggest box office success in 1978 and gave the singer He hits as such You are the person who I want And the summer nightsBoth are partnerships with actor John Travolta.

Travolta wrote on Instagram, following the news of the death, that Olivia Newton-John “made our whole lives so much better.” “Your influence was amazing. I love you so much,” he wrote.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in the early 1990s, Newton-John devoted herself to publicly garnering support for cancer research. Her efforts were recognized by Queen Elizabeth, who named her a Lady on the 2020 New Year’s Honor Roll.

“(Diagnosing a disease) was something that consumed my day, and after a while I stopped and said, ‘You know what? I need to enjoy my life,'” the artist said in 2019 during an interview with CBS. This morning.

“Because this joy of life, of everyday life, must be part of the healing process.”

“So I chose this path to be grateful, because the other side is not good,” she said with a laugh.

“I’m not a victim and I don’t want to be one. I feel like what happened to me had a purpose.”

Newton John was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom on September 26, 1948. His father was a British spy during World War II. His mother was the daughter of German Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born. In 1954, Newton-John, her parents and siblings moved to Australia where she was raised. There, at a very young age, she created a musical group with friends and began performing in a local cafe. Little by little, the young woman began to participate in television shows and talent shows.

An award she won in one of these shows made it possible to travel to the United Kingdom, and the young woman and her mother then traveled to London in 1966. From there, she toured Europe and recorded some songs, but the first leap in her career came in 1971 when she released a single Written by Bob Dylan, If not for you.

In 1977, her career was not going well, when she met producer Alan Carr. Newton John had the opportunity to play Sandy in the film version of the musical. fat. Fearing that the 28-year-old was too old for the teenage role, she insisted on auditioning with John Travolta before taking the job. She succeeded, and, absorbing Newton-John’s accent, the character was recast for an Australian representation.

The huge success of the film resulted in new opportunities, such as the release of the album physical in 1981And the Many critics praised it as their best album.

The record was dedicated to then-boyfriend Matt Latanzi, whom Newton-John married in 1984. After spending three years out of the spotlight raising her daughter Chloe, the singer struggled to get her career back on track. In the early 1990s, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Activity of the artist – which previously showed itself in 1978, when she canceled a tour in Japan in protest of the killing of dolphins caught in tuna nets, or in 1992, when she sang in Rio de Janeiro, in the midst of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in it General, Rio 92 – Focused more on fighting disease. This effort resulted in the creation of a cancer treatment center in Melbourne, the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre.

In 2019, her legendary costume from fat It was auctioned for $405,000. The proceeds went towards cancer research conducted in Australia.

Meanwhile, Olivia Newton-John continued recording and touring, although many of her albums were only released in Australia, where she performed at the opening of the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

In 2008, she secretly married John Easterling, director of a naturopathic company, at an Inca ceremony in Peru. In May 2017, it was announced that breast cancer had returned and had spread to her back, which led to the cancellation of a tour in the United States and Canada. The singer publicly campaigned for legalization cannabis Medical product for pain relief.

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