Olivia Newton-John’s management have rubbished reports that she is “dying” with “weeks to live” after reports regarding her ill health circulated.
Media outlets in Australia and the US claimed that the 70-year-old Grease star was incredibly unwell, just months after being diagnosed with cancer for the third time, but her management have slammed them as “laughable”.
Last week, an unnamed source told Radar Online that her “bodily functions were shutting down”. They added: “She refuses to let go until she makes it through [her daughter] Chloe's wedding day.”
The reports were followed by an Australian site Now To Love who claimed that Newton-John had “weeks not months” to live.
However, her US-based manager Michael Caprio dismissed the reports his the actress was at “deaths door” as “hilarious”.
He told news.com.au: “No she has not [only got weeks to live]. You might want to get better sources versus reading tabloids.”
Meanwhile, Newton-John’s social media manager Randy Slovacek also spoke out about the reports to The Herald Sun.
He said: “We have stated over and over again publicly she’s feeling better. People just seem to want to believe some dramatic turn.”
Newton-John first beat breast cancer in 1992 before falling ill again in 2013. In September 2017, she spoke out about her third occurrence of the illness.
The star told Australia’s Channel 7: “My husband’s always there, and he’s always there to support me, and I believe I will win over it and that’s my goal.
“I’m treating it naturally. And doing really well. In California, it’s legal to grow a certain amount of plants for your own medicinal purposes.
“I’m very lucky that I live in a state where it’s legal and that I have a husband that is a plant-medicine man.”
Her husband, John Easterling, founded the Amazon Herb Company and grows cannabis at their Californian ranch. The actress said she started using cannabis oil for the pain as well as cutting out sugar and undergoing radiation treatment.
