Grease star Didi Conn says she spoke to Olivia Newton-John for the final time “just a few weeks” earlier than her demise.
The actor, who performed Beauty School Dropout Frenchy within the hit musical, remained near her co-star all through the years and so they usually stored involved.
“We spoke like once a month or so,” Conn, 71, not too long ago informedNew York Postin an unique interview.
“She was in the hospital at the time [we last spoke]. She had broken a leg and didn’t even notice. Like, her bones were just cracking.”
Despite being ailing with most cancers, the Aussie star berated her buddy when she heard Conn had been sick, too.
“She said, ‘What? Why didn’t you tell me?’” Conn remembered. “And the next day, I got this beautiful orchid plant. And three days before she died one of the orchid flowers fell down and my heart stopped.”
She added: “I said, ‘I hope that’s not a sign.’”
As beforehand reported, Newton-John, who was an outspoken advocate for most cancers analysis, misplaced her battle with breast most cancers in August 2022 on the age of 73.
She was first identified with most cancers in 1992 and once more in 2013 and 2017. The illness finally progressed to Stage 4.
During the interview, Conn additionally talked about when Newton-John obtained her first most cancers analysis.
“Chloe [her daughter] was very little,” she stated.
“Her priorities about stardom and all of that just flipped to living, to being the best mum, being the best friend. And also being an advocate and a spokesperson for cancer and thriving, as she said, surviving but thriving. And that’s really what she dedicated her life to – besides performing.”
Conn remembers going to see Newton-John in live performance and being pulled on stage.
“Oh my god, the place would go berserk,” she stated with fun, including that Newton-John at all times sang I Love You, I Honestly Love You for the encore.
“And I’d be standing there in the wings near the stage, looking out, watching her having just danced her heart out,” she stated.
“Towards the end she wasn’t dancing because her cancer had gone to her sacrum and back, but [she was still] giving her 110 per cent to the audience.
“And then she would say, ‘I honestly love you’ and put her hands out to the audience in such a loving, honest way. She honestly loved them and they loved her.”
Conn additionally informed the New York Post she had no concept whereas filming Grease that it could grow to be such a beloved traditional.
“If I knew I would have asked for points!” she joked, noting that Paramount additionally had no clue that the movie would grow to be so profitable.
It has now spawned an upcoming prequel collection, Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies, which takes place 4 years earlier than the occasions of Grease and follows the Pink Ladies woman posse.
This article initially appeared within the New York Post and has been republished with permission
Source: www.news.com.au
