Newton-John caught the singing bug early on.
She was the youngest child her brother, Hugh, became a doctor while Rona, an actor, was briefly married to her Grease co-star Jeff Conaway. Newton-John was six when her family moved to Melbourne, where her father worked as an academic. Her mother, Irene, was the daughter of the Nobel prize-winning physicist Max Born, who was good friends with Albert Einstein. Newton-John may be seen as an Australian star, but she was born in Cambridge, England. “I just want to do the research and find out which things work.” Is she not worried some users might eschew conventional medicine entirely? “I’m not telling anyone to do anything,” she insists. A previous study also found that cancer patients who rely entirely on complementary and alternative therapies have a higher risk of death. Cancer Research UK warns that there is not enough reliable scientific evidence to use herbal medicine as a treatment for cancer, something the foundation is hoping to challenge in its work. Her belief in the healing power of plants is so strong that she has set up the Olivia Newton-John Foundation to fund research into holistic therapies for cancer. It helps with anxiety, it helps with sleep, it helps with pain.” But I could see the benefits once I started using it. Her daughter, Chloe (whose father is Newton-John’s first husband, the actor Matt Lattanzi), also owns a marijuana farm in Oregon. He grows the plant in a greenhouse at their ranch as part of his business, the Amazon Herb Company.
She has become an enthusiastic advocate for the drug, after being introduced to it by her husband, John Easterling. One thing that she says has been a big help – alongside surgery, chemo and radiotherapy – is medical cannabis. Newton-John performing at a Fire Fight Australia bushfire relief concert in February this year. It’s concerning when it comes back, but I thought: ‘I’ll get through it again.’” “It’s been a part of my life for so long. The cancer’s return in 2017 was, she says, not unexpected. Both times she was still shellshocked with grief. When it came back in 2013, her older sister, Rona, had just died and Newton-John only found out about the cancer’s recurrence when she was involved in a car accident. Newton-John was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, not long after the death of her father, a former MI5 agent who worked on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park. You never know when your time is over we all have a finite amount of time on this planet, and we just need to be grateful for that.” She genuinely sounds as if she means every word. “Three times lucky, right?” she smiles warmly. And there it is again when she talks about being diagnosed with cancer.
It crops up when she is describing her career as one of the bestselling musicians of all time, with a string of No 1 hits and four Grammy awards. The word “lucky” comes up a lot when you are talking to Newton-John. I feel so lucky that I have a wonderful husband with me and my daughter’s visiting.” Then I realised, I’m the person that lives here – it doesn’t matter if there’s a little mess on the floor. “I was always fussy about my house being perfect. The pandemic has also taught her to not let the small things annoy her so much. The other day, she realised she had been at the ranch long enough to achieve her dream of planting tomatoes, watching them grow and then eating them. Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Picturesįor Newton-John, who is normally on the move every few weeks for work, lockdown was a great opportunity to enjoy the simple pleasures of being at home with her family, pets, miniature horses and chickens. Newton-John with John Travolta in 1978’s Grease.
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