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Actress Didi Conn, who played Frenchy in the movie ‘Grease’, told ABC’s ‘Good Morning, America’ that she was with Olivia Newton just days before the singer’s death from complications from breast cancer on Monday 8th spoke to John .
According to Didi, Olivia, 73, gave details of how her health had already been compromised.
“She told me she couldn’t walk and had fulltime care, but her husband John and daughter Chloe were there all the time and they were hopelessly devoted,” Didi said.
Didi also reflected on her friendship with Olivia, who played Sandy Olsson, the protagonist of Grease. She recalled what she was thinking when she met the star backstage in the 1978 film.
“Beautiful, perfect, beautiful,” said Didi. “Olivia was nervous. In the first scene we had together, when she arrived on the first day of school, she told me that she had been in another movie and it wasn’t going the way she was hoping, so I started hanging out with her improvise. Olivia was a huge Star Rock back then,” he said.
She added that she will always remember her friend for her “big heart.”
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“I think I’ll remember her singing. As Olivia sang I Honestly Love You, she raised her hands for the audience to say, ‘I honestly love you’. And I think that’s how I’ll always remember her big heart. who took so much care of everyone. And honestly, we’ll always love her.”
Olivia NewtonJohn was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and announced in May 2017 that the disease had returned after 25 years of remission and had spread to her lower back. In August 2018, she canceled a tour due to the progression of symptoms.