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Olivia Newton-John's Husband John Easterling Shares Emotional Tribute
Olivia Newton-John's household and friends are remembering her "magic."
On Sept. 26, what would've been her 74th birthday, respective of her loved ones paid tribute to the precocious actress.
Newton-John's Grease co-star John Travolta shared a throwback photograph of them connected the acceptable of the 1978 movie and wrote, "Happy day my Olivia." And portion his Danny whitethorn person captured the bosom of her Sandy onscreen, successful existent life, she was joined to John Easterling, who shared a "birthday memory" connected Instagram.
The Amazon Herb Company laminitis recalled however helium took Newton-John connected a "week-long escapade successful the Out Islands of the Bahamas," wherever they rented a location and a boat.
"It was private, it was wonderful, and we would instrumentality the vessel to uninhabited islands and formation it and conscionable explore," Easterling shared, "just the 2 of us."
But 1 day, portion they were returning from a travel to Great Guana Cay, things took a crook and a tempest rolled in.
"The upwind was howling the vessel was rolling and slamming into the waves, rainfall was stinging similar idiosyncratic throwing thumbtacks successful your face," Easterling continued. "Olivia got down maine holding choky arsenic I was navigating this 23-foot runabout with a cardinal consul. The lone instrumentality was a magnetic compass."
He remembered however helium was aiming for Elbow Cay, but due to the fact that of the constricted visibility, helium didn't cognize if they had blown disconnected course. But erstwhile the tempest lifted, Easterling recalled, they were "perfectly connected course." As the mates continued connected their journey, they saw a rainbow and dolphins jumping by their boat.
"Olivia looked astatine maine similar I was a superhero and I knew it was mostly unsighted religion and dumb luck," Easterling wrote. "As the dolphins led america implicit the gorgeous aqua water, nether the rainbow towards the lighthouse, we some recognized the fingerprints of the supernatural were each implicit this—and that's the mode we lived our life. Every time with Olivia determination was a hint of magic and each time with Olivia was a spot of the supernatural. Happy Birthday Honey – I Love You!"
Easterling wasn't the lone household subordinate to grant Newton-John. Her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, besides shared footage from a "birthday meal for mama," adding, "We emotion you mama."
Newton-John died astatine her ranch successful Southern California connected Aug. 8. She was 73 years old. Her passing came aft a conflict with bosom cancer.
Two days later, Easterling thanked fans for the "ocean of emotion and support" and paid tribute to the four-time Grammy winner.
"Olivia, Our emotion for each different transcends our understanding," helium wrote connected Instagram. "Every time we expressed our gratitude for this emotion that could beryllium truthful deep, truthful real, truthful natural. We ne'er had to ‘work' connected it. We were successful awe of this large enigma and accepted the acquisition of our emotion arsenic past, contiguous and forever."
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