Olivia Newton-John’s Longtime Friend Jane Seymour Recalls Their Last Moments Together
09.08.2022 - 18:45
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Jane Seymour is tearfully paying tribute to her longtime friend, Olivia Newton-John. In an interview with ET’s Kevin Frazier, Seymour opens up about the pair’s enduring friendship, Newton-John’s final days, and her legacy.
Newton-John died Monday after a decades-long battle with breast cancer, which she was extremely forthcoming about to the public. Her story has inspired and encouraged others on the same health journey. She was 73.
“She broke all the rules of science. I mean, she just kept going and going and going,” Seymour says. “She was beyond a fighter. She always said she’s a thriver. That was her word, ‘Not a survivor, a thriver.’ And I think she taught me and everyone I know so much about living with and passing with cancer. We’re all gonna go one day, but [are you] gonna go, ‘Ugh I’m so terrified, I’m angry, I’m gonna isolate. I’m not gonna let anyone know, I’m gonna be all alone and go through it’ — or do you do what she did and just be brave and say, ‘Hey, I’m going through something a lot of people go through.'”
Seymour says that even while Newton-John was suffering “terrible pain,” she still managed to maintain meaningful relationships with her loved ones.
“Even in her final years when I would go and see her, all she wanted to know was what I was doing, you know, ‘Are you happy? What’s going on in your life? How are your kids? How’s this, how’s that?'” Seymour recalls. “She appreciated close friends and she just lived a full and sort of spiritual life, really.”
On their final get together, Seymour visited Newton-John in her home and says that the “Grease” star was “so loving and so present.”
“I was looking at her going, ‘I don’t think I’m ever going to see you again,'” Seymour admits, sensing that