NEW EDITION - OUT NOW OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN: A TIME FOR HEALING Olivia Newton-John didn’t intend to make more music. But from her home in California, where she’s been isolating with her daughter Chloe, Olivia tells us more about the new song they’ve recorded, which is about “loving people, even if you don’t agree with them”. “This is a time for healing,” she says. Living with stage-four cancer, Olivia describes herself as a cancer thriver rather than survivor – and she’s determined to help others, establishing the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, and setting up the Olivia Newton-John Foundation in the US to support plant medicine research. “That’s my dream, to find a cure for cancer,” she says. “I’m helping myself but also wanting to help others feel good about living with cancer. That’s what I do: I live with it. I feel great and healthy and strong and I am very grateful.”
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