human so I have my days and my moments
of course, but he just inspires me and I have
total belief in him and that I’ll be fine.”
Of finding “the love of my life” when she
was 59, she says: “There is no time limit on
findingTheOne.”
It wasanother John – Travolta – and the
song You’re the One That I Want that
d Olivia to worldwide fame in the
Grease in 1978.
andI still stay in touch. It feels like
and it feels like another lifetime at
time. It was so long ago and the
tillloved – that’s what amazes me.
ll love to watch it and talk about it,
ybody I meet asks me about it. I’m
ateful that it made so many people
feelvery blessed to be a part of a
at will last forever.”
wasreunited with former co-starJohn – who has “the warmest smile on the
planet” – for the film’s 40th anniversary in- The year marked a personal milestone
for Olivia, too: her 70th birthday.
“I can’t even believe I’m 70. Age is a
number. You can make of it what you wish.
I’m grateful just to get to 70 and still feel like
there are things that I want to do.”
Of her birthday celebrations, she reveals:
“I had all these thoughts that I was going to be
having dinner parties with different friends
in different parts of the world, but it ended
up that I was in my hospital in Melbourne.”
She had been admitted to the Australian
Cancer Wellness & Research Centre that she
herself had founded in 2012 to undergo a
course of radiation therapy, after her cancer-
weakened pelvis fractured.
While it was not the celebration she had
wished for, she tells us: “It was absolutely
d her daughter Chloe attend a premiere in 2016 (below left). “She’s my only
callher ‘the lucky egg’,” says Olivia. Each year Olivia heads a fun run in aid of
her Cancer Wellness & Research Centre in Melbourne (below right)song You
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husband John Easterling.
The pair live in California
with a menagerie of dogs,
horses and chickens
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