Matt Lattanzi

Olivia Newton-John's ex-husband, Matt Lattanzi, urged fans to "celebrate the joy" that the late "Grease" star brought to the world after her death.

She discussed in 2021 how it had progressed to stage 4. They dated for four years before saying “I do” in 1984 and welcoming their daughter, Chloe, in 1986. Olivia Newton-John’s ex-husband wants fans to “celebrate the joy” that the late actress brought to the world.

Olivia Newton-John died on Monday, August 8, after battling breast cancer — how ex-husband Matt Lattanzi remembers her.

“If you think positive thoughts, you’ll create a positive world around yourself and attract positive people to you,” she added. And if you think dark thoughts, you’re going to create a dark world.” The entrepreneur announced the “Physical” performer’s death with a lengthy tribute shared via social media on Monday. “Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer,” Easterling wrote. The Xanadu star was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, later undergoing a partial mastectomy and reconstruction surgery. “Today we lost one of the world’s greats Olivia Newton-John. … I have heard truly lovely stories and memories from people near and far, and honor in each of you where those feelings and memories come from,” she continued. Newton-John was married to the former soap opera actor from 1984 to 1995, welcoming daughter Chloe Lattanzi in 1986.

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“I decided on my direction of therapies after consultation with my doctors and natural therapists and the medical team at my Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia,” she said. It helps with anxiety, it helps with sleep, it helps with pain,” she said. In an interview with The Guardian in 2020, Newton-John revealed that she had to learn how to walk again in 2018 after her cancer had spread so much that she had fractured the base of her spine. The back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her concert tour, has turned out to be breast cancer that has metastasized to the sacrum,” read a statement on Newton-John’s Facebook at the time. In May 2017, when she was 68 years old, Newton-John announced that her breast cancer had spread after doctors discovered that the cancer had metastasized to the sacrum, a bone at the base of her spine. In an interview on the “A Life of Greatness” podcast in February 2021, Newton-John, who had several miscarriages before her daughter, revealed that she came “close to losing” Chloe before her birth. Newton-John’s announcement came less than a day after she underwent a partial mastectomy of her right breast at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. “She’s doing just fine,” her representative, Sylvi Brown, said at the time.Newton-John declined to talk to reporters as she entered the hospital. I don’t remember how I felt, but I remember one of my teachers taking me to the zoo and then taking me home,” she said. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in her memory to the @onjfoundation.” “Her husband, John, and her daughter, Chloe, were there all the time and she told me that they were just so hopelessly devoted,” she said. I was always a pretty happy kid, though I missed my dad and I could tell my mum was unhappy.” She continued, “We went from living in the university to a little apartment, and I would see my dad after school a couple of afternoons a week. “It’s just so comforting to see the outpouring of love coming back, the love and the prayer and the healing intentions coming from people all over the world to help complete that circle, that’s in her message that she puts out and that’s what’s coming back so I think before long here in a couple of months she’ll have a real story that will inspire so many people, you have to address this challenge at one point or another.”