Patrick Swayze’s Widow’s Moving Remembrance
Posted on Oct 27, 2009 @ 06:18PM - 9 comments
Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi, made a moving speech Tuesday during Maria Shriver’s 2009 Women’s Conference in Long Beach, CA.
Talking on a panel addressing “Grief, Healing and Resilience”, Niemi, who joined cancer sufferer Elizabeth Edwards on the stage, shared that her grief is still raw following the death of her beloved husband to pancreatic cancer on September 14th.
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“I thought during the 22 months of my husband’s illness that it gave me all this time to get used to the idea of losing him,” she shared. “I found myself that when I actually got to this point I said, ‘No no no’..It wasn’t the same at all.”
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Going on to say, "The actual loss is like an animal all of its own. It made all sadness and grief previous to that look like an intellectual concept. It's almost -- when the grief takes over, your body is not your own... I know I just have to go through it, and it's going to take as long as it's going to take."
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Niemi admitted that at some point she wanted to feel like she had the courage to go on and have a good life but, “In the first few days after [Patrick's death], I felt like that would almost be a betrayal. That I would be letting him down somehow, and of course everyone's saying to me, 'Trust me, this is what he would have wanted’”
Lisa Niemi To Discuss Life Without Patrick Swayze At Women's Conference
Posted on Oct 23, 2009 @ 10:12AM - 3 comments
Patrick Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi, will participate Tuesday, October 27th in a workshop on how to deal with grief and pain at the Women's Conference 2009, which will be held in Long Beach, California.
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Niemi isn't the only celebrity on the panel, as she will join Elizabeth Edwards and Susan St. James, both mothers who had to bury their children after horrific accidents;
Patrick Swayze Memorial Sunday
Posted on Sep 29, 2009 @ 02:20PM - 2 comments
A private memorial service for the late Patrick Swayze is set to be held at Sony Studios in Culver City, CA, Sunday.
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The Dirty Dancer actor died earlier this month after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Donations are to be made to either The Patrick Swayze Pancreas Cancer Research Fund, Stanford Center, Development Office: 2700 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
Or to Stand Up to Cancer
Suzanne Somers Apologizes For Controversial Patrick Swayze Comments
Posted on Sep 24, 2009 @ 12:14PM - 12 comments
Suzanne Somers has taken to her blog to apologize for some controversial, shocking comments she made following the passing of Patrick Swayze earlier this month.
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Somers, a breast cancer survivor, said that Patrick Swayze would still be alive if he had not had chemotherapy treatments. A statement that stirred anger in many.
CONTROVERSY: Suzanne Somers Says Patrick Swayze Would Be Alive Without Chemotherapy
Posted on Sep 18, 2009 @ 07:03PM - 62 comments
In a move that is sure to stir great controversy and anger, Suzanne Somers blames Patrick Swayze’s death on chemotherapy.
Swayze bravely battled pancreatic cancer for nearly 20 months before dying Monday. His courage inspired many and his longevity one of the deadliest forms of cancer surprised even the actor at times.
He underwent chemotherapy as well as other treatments.
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But Somers told a reporter that the chemo was poison and the star should have used alternative methods.
“They took a beautiful man,” and “put poison in his body,” she told columnist Shinan Govani. “Why couldn’t they have built him up nutritionally and gotten rid of the toxins? I hate to be controversial…but I have to speak out.” She made the comments just hours after Swayze’s death.
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RadarOnline.com verified with Somers’ management that the former Three’s Company star made those comments. Govani also told RadarOnline.com that Somers’ quotes were accurate and said he wasn’t interviewing her but it was “party talk.” at a Toronto Film Festival event. He said she did not know he was a journalist and also said she had just lost many friends to cancer and that traditional methods of treating cancer are failing.
Govani told RadarOnline.com that Somers said to him: “People won’t listen to me. If only they would listen to me,”
Asked if Suzanne would talk to RadarOnline.com to explain or expound on her feelings about Swayze’s treatment, a member of her management team said: “Suzanne isn’t going to be doing any interviews presently about her comments on the tragic passing of Patrick Swayze.”
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Somers has battled breast cancer.
Swayze Cremated, Family Moves Ahead With Plans To Scatter His Ashes On Ranch
Posted on Sep 17, 2009 @ 07:52PM - 4 comments
Patrick Swayze has been cremated and his wife Lisa is moving ahead with plans to scatter his remains on his New Mexico ranch, a story RadarOnline.com first Wednesday
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As per the death certificate Swayze's remains are being stored at his lawyers office until plans can be made to transport his remains.
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Swayze loved his Rancho de Dias Alegres (Ranch of Happy Days) and often said it was his favorite place in the world.
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Swayze died September 14th 2009, aged 57.
DVD Review: Patrick Swayze’s City of Joy (1992)
Posted on Sep 17, 2009 @ 06:30PM - Add a comment
Over the span of his career, Patrick Swayze appeared in dozens of productions, playing characters that mostly had a few key assets: seductive dance moves, tough-guy attitude and, as his performance in Ghost revealed, the gravity of a leading man (plus: those hands!). But in City of Joy, Roland Joffe’s 1992 adaptation of Dominique LaPierre’s eponymous book, Swayze portrayed a different kind of character; a man who was searching for answers, who had lost his way in life and, above all, needed some purpose -- and fast.
EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Swayze To Be Cremated
Posted on Sep 16, 2009 @ 09:44AM - 9 comments
Patrick Swayze’s body will be cremated within 48 hours, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
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His ashes will be spread across his ranch in New Mexico, a source told RadarOnline.com.
Swayze loved the ranch and visited whenever he could. Swayze turned his Rancho de Días Alegres (Ranch of Happy Days) into a wildlife preserve and timber farm, he loved the rugged mountains and canyons of his ranch and the cowboy life he led there.
He had his own plane that he would pilot and fly there often.
People in town loved the actor, and he said it was his favorite place in the world.
Swayze’s body is currently in Los Angeles.
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The actor, best known for his roles is such movie classics as Dirty Dancing, Point Break and Ghost, died September 14 after a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer.
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Costars & Friends Reflect on Patrick Swayze
Posted on Sep 15, 2009 @ 08:41AM - 1 comment
Hollywood is in mourning today, after many an actor's friend and colleague Patrick Swayze lost a long battle with cancer on Monday.
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In addition to his famous Ghost costars (click here to read Demi Moore's reaction, and here for Whoopi Goldberg's), others have spoken up to celebrate the life and work of the actor.
"Patrick was a rare and beautiful combination of raw masculinity and amazing grace," Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey said.
"My heart goes out to his wife and childhood sweetheart, Lisa Niemi, to his mom, Patsy, and to the rest of their family."
Patrick Swayze's Courageous Final Battle
Posted on Sep 14, 2009 @ 08:47PM - Add a comment
Patrick Swayze fought a most courageous battle against cancer.
Patrick Swayze: Career Highlights
Posted on Sep 14, 2009 @ 08:16PM - Add a comment
We're taking a look back at the career of Patrick Swayze.
