Jane Seymour tearfully remembered her longtime buddy Olivia Newton-John, recalling how the late display and music legend was “such a optimistic gentle” of their remaining moments collectively.
Newton-John, who died on Monday at age of 73 after fighting breast most cancers, had been in Seymour’s life for greater than 40 years ― the 2 initially linked via the “Grease” star’s sister, Rona, a affected person of Seymour’s OB-GYN father.
“We had numerous ups and downs with careers and husbands and youngsters and life. We had a really particular bond and it was fairly distinctive for me,” Seymour instructed “Immediately” throughout an emotional interview on Tuesday. “I don’t suppose I ever had a buddy that basically might perceive or needed to grasp what that life was like. And I actually miss her.”
Seymour shared that she had the “privilege” of seeing Newton-John “not that way back,” when she visited her dwelling together with her sisters in tow. However by the point they arrived, the “Xanadu” star apparently had forgotten they had been coming over.
Newton-John “obtained the day flawed however she knew we traveled for 2, three hours to get there,” Seymour recalled. “And she or he obtained off the bed, obtained dressed, got here out on a walker — I imply, she actually shouldn't have gotten off the bed in any respect — and she or he simply sat down with us for fairly awhile and requested us: How are we? How was our lives? How might she assist us?”
“She simply regarded round and stated, ‘Isn’t it stunning right here?’ I stated, ‘Sure it's.’ She stated, ‘I simply sit out right here and I simply have a look at the world. I imply, how stunning? I have a look at the sky, take heed to the hummingbirds, I have a look at that canine. Take a look at this life that we've got. And us collectively in spite of everything these years.’”
The “Dr. Quinn Medication Lady” star, who knew Newton-John was “actually, actually unwell for a really very long time,” was awestruck by how her buddy cared for others, even throughout her well being struggles.
“What brings tears to my eyes is that she all the time cared about different individuals,” Seymour remarked. “She all the time requested about me, requested about my household, about individuals I knew or we mutually knew who had been going via most cancers. She was simply this optimistic gentle and superb, superb individual.”
Seymour stated she's going to keep in mind how Newton-John taught her that “life is a journey.”
“She simply had such power and fortitude,” Seymour stated. “As a lot as she was struggling, she by no means spoke about it, ever. She simply put a smile on her face and stated, ‘I’m thriving. I’m thriving.’”
In an Instagram submit shortly after Newton-John’s demise was introduced, Seymour expressed related sentiments, sharing how the star “impressed everybody together with her optimistic perspective to life and unfailing need to assist others.”
The actor was amongst a refrain of mates, followers and celebrities who memorialized Newton-John with loving tributes, together with her former “Grease” co-stars John Travolta, Stockard Channing and Dinah Manoff.
The beloved icon’s demise was introduced on Monday by her husband John Easterling, who revealed that she “handed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California,” the place she was “surrounded by household and mates.”
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