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Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe reveals 'signs' late Grease star is sending after death
03.10.2023 - 15:05 / ok.co.uk
Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe Lattanzi has said that she thinks her late mum, who would have been celebrating her 75th birthday today, Monday 2nd October, has been sending her signs from beyond the grave. The 37 year old singer, who was incredibly close to her mum, discussed her experiences and memories of the Grease icon during an appearance on Loose Women.
Opening up to panellists Coleen Nolan and Gloria Hunniford, Chloe shared: "About a week after she passed, my phone went ‘click’ and I’d had a discussion… she said ‘If I can come through to you, show myself to you, I will’. "I had a feeling just to look at this photo, I knew there was something special about it.
I zoomed in, it was a live photo, and I pressed the live button and there was a bright blue orb flying around my dog Jelly’s head and my dog looks and sees it. "My mum wears this aqua blue stone around her neck, which I forgot to put on this morning.
"I wanted to wear it to show you guys, it was her favourite necklace," the star went on. "She never took it off, John gave it to her and it was that colour so I feel it was her way of showing me ‘It’s Momma’.” Chloe explained that only a couple of days later, her father sent her a photo that appeared to show another aqua blue orb flying by his wife, who is also a cancer survivor and was really close to Olivia.
"That blue orb is flying right up her leg and you can even see the wispy trail marks behind it," Chloe, who was Olivia's only child, went on. “She comes to me in many different ways, I have an owl that comes and sits outside my room for an hour sometimes and just sits with me.
The owl is the symbol of our family so that’s another way that mum comes through.” Chloe, who has been working on more music
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