Olivia Newton-John revealed in her autobiography the devastating particulars of her first most cancers analysis and why she saved it from her daughter Chloe Lattanzi.

The beloved Aussie icon, who died on Monday aged 73, penned a memoir in 2017 and opened up about her battle with most cancers which began in 1992.

In it, she mentioned she’d discovered a lump throughout a self-examination of her breasts and pushed her physician to run a number of exams which got here again destructive – till the ultimate one.

Olivia Newton-John (pictured) revealed in her autobiography the devastating particulars of her first most cancers analysis and why she saved it from her daughter Chloe Lattanzi

On July 3, 1992, Olivia’s husband on the time, Matt Lattanzi, now 63, was contacted by her physician because the pair modified flights in Seattle. 

Dr. Phillips mentioned he wished to see Olivia in particular person, alluding to the dangerous information, however Matt saved the doable analysis a secret from her because it was already a day of heartache. 

Olivia’s father, Brinley, had been very sick with liver most cancers when he died on July 3. 

The beloved Aussie icon, who died on Monday aged 73, penned a memoir in 2017 and opened up about her battle with most cancers which began in 1992. Olivia is pictured performing in 1992

She had visited him on his sickbed solely days earlier than however needed to go away for Los Angeles to attend rehearsals for her world tour. 

‘I informed him I would be again quickly however all evening lengthy on that airplane trip house I cried and cried,’ Olivia wrote in her e book. ‘In my coronary heart, I knew I’d by no means see my father once more — and I used to be proper.’ 

She went on to disclose in her memoir, Do not Cease Believing, the second her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 36, discovered her mom had breast most cancers on the age of six. 

On July 3, 1992, Olivia’s husband on the time, Matt Lattanzi, 63, was contacted by her physician because the pair modified flights in Seattle. . Phillips mentioned he wished to see Olivia in particular person, alluding to the dangerous information, however Matt saved the doable analysis a secret because it was already a tough day for her 

The younger lady had ‘misplaced her finest pal Colette to most cancers’, so Olivia selected to maintain the analysis a secret from her at first, regardless of having introduced it publicly.

Sadly, on Chloe’s first day again at college in Australia, she discovered the devastating information from her friends. 

Olivia wrote: ‘Once I picked Chloe up after her very first day, she was crying.

‘”Mummy, Mummy! Considered one of my associates mentioned you’ve got most cancers. Is it true?” I held her, informed her it was true, however that now I used to be higher and the most cancers was gone.’ 

She went on to disclose the second her daughter Chloe Newton-John, 36, (proper) discovered her mom had breast most cancers at age six from her associates at college. The younger lady had ‘misplaced her finest pal Colette to most cancers’, so Olivia selected to maintain the analysis a secret from her at first

The Grease star went on to say her little lady had been crushed by the omission, telling her mom, ‘I’d have taken care of you.’ 

She believed it was the beginning of the ‘belief points’ Chloe struggled with later in life.   

Olivia died peacefully in her house in Southern California on Monday morning, surrounded by household and associates.

It got here after a courageous and terribly public decades-long battle with most cancers during which she was identified 3 times in 1992, 2013 and, for a ultimate time, in 2017.

Olivia died peacefully in her house in Southern California on Monday morning, surrounded by household and associates. (Pictured with husband John Easterling in a throwback photograph she posted on Friday simply three days earlier than she handed away)