John Easterling remains to be very a lot in love with late spouse Olivia Newton-John.
Two years after the Grease star’s loss of life from breast most cancers at age 73, it is a love that Easterling now pours into the mission she started a long time in the past, to eradicate most cancers and supply higher take care of these affected by it.
“I am doing tremendous incredible,” the naturopathic entrepreneur, 72, tells PEOPLE solely, opening up about life now. “I am staying very busy with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund and the analysis that is occurring there. We’re sponsoring plant drugs and most cancers analysis. And the fantastic thing about that’s that we’re seeing fairly gorgeous ends in the early phases.”
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He is additionally within the midst of attempting to promote the sprawling Santa Ynez, Calif. ranch the place he and Newton-John spent many pleased years collectively, and the place she finally handed away. “I am nonetheless on the ranch, however we simply promote it. I’ve acquired the animals right here, the horses and cat and canine. We’re all simply shifting ahead.”
When his spouse was nonetheless alive, “we had such a beautiful time right here, but it surely was our place and now I am recognizing it is time to let anyone else take pleasure in that peace and serenity and sweetness,” he says. “People who find themselves in the same circumstance I do know would perceive.”
Although Easterling is able to relocate, planning to separate his time between Florida and Peru, he says that his coronary heart is not going wherever anytime quickly.
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“I’ve that very robust presence of her on a regular basis. And typically even final evening with the total moon, she was so current. After which as we speak I used to be simply listening to the music “My Dream”, the Jim Brickman music, and it was simply so spectacular,” he says of the newly launched single that includes a protracted misplaced recording of Newton-John. “It actually simply despatched me right into a supernatural house of emotion and pleasure.”
Easterling nonetheless feels so linked to Newton-John, it is arduous for him to replicate on the potential of discovering romantic love once more.
“Olivia and I had a love so large and so indefinite in time,” he says. “We embraced it as one thing even greater than ourselves. We by no means had any petty arguments or something like that. I imply, our entire life expertise and the issues that we shared and believed in have been simply too necessary. I did not even suppose love might be like that.”
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He continues, “That is not going to occur once more, I imply, I do not anticipate it. Extra just lately, I am getting messages coming from Olivia once I’m in Peru at our particular locations there, and people messages are like ‘Love life, reside life. Life may be very, very treasured, and do not waste a second of life as a result of it is a very skinny veil that separates us.'”
Love, says Easterling, “can specific itself in lots of kinds and some ways. It is having loving relationships with everybody in your life. It is simply totally different expressions.” However as for locating the kind of love he had with Newton-John, “I could not think about it being potential the primary time. So I am unable to think about it being potential once more.”
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He does nonetheless, think about he’ll see Newton-John once more. “I see and really feel her presence on a regular basis, and I do know we’ll be utterly reunited once more. In order that’s giving me the power and the power to essentially push ahead.”
