Olivia Newton-John shared a positive update on her health while facing cancer for the second time.
“I am no longer in pain and happy to say I am working again,” Olivia, who is back on the road touring, told Closer.
“When I get to sing the songs I love, it’s like a gift,” a joyful Olivia, 69, revealed. “Being on the road with my band has been healing for me.”
“Of course, it was scary,” she admitted of being diagnosed with cancer again after successfully beating the illness 25 years ago. “But the words that came to my mind were ‘This too shall pass!’ I just had to believe that I was going to be OK.”
That upbeat attitude, along with the love of her husband of nine years, John Easterling, 65, and her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, 31, helped Olivia prepare to fight for her life.
“I talked to my body. I affirmed that I was healthy and strong,” the star, who believes that a positive point of view can be crucial to surviving a health crisis, said.
“Depression suppresses your immune system,” she told Closer. “I tried to get my mind off my troubles by focusing on the things that I am passionate about.”
Earlier this year, Olivia explained that before learning she had cancer for a second time in May of this year, she initially thought she had sciatica – pain radiating along the sciatic nerve which runs down the leg from the back.
Olivia was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992; just days after her own father had passed away from cancer.
Following eight months of chemotherapy and a partial mastectomy, Olivia was cleared of the disease.
So when tests revealed that mum-of-one Olivia had a metastasised cancer tumour growing at the base of her spine, she was completely caught off guard.
“In my mind, it was over. I’d finished with it,” said the Greasestar.
This story originally appeared on our sister site, www.closerweekly.com.
