Patrick Swayze’s Widow’s Moving Remembrance
Posted on Oct 27, 2009 @ 06:18PM
Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi, made a moving speech Tuesday during Maria Shriver’s 2009 Women’s Conference in Long Beach, CA.
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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.
“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."
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’”
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so, did Maria call her hubby on her cell phone BEFORE she parked in the red zone or after?????
Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 8:59am
God bless you Lisa.
Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 8:49am
Good grief, let this thread be about Lisa and only Lisa.
Posted Wed, 10/28/2009 - 3:18am
I bet Lisa's talk was so moving, I really feel for her. Then Kate Gosselin got her turn to make a complete fool of herself by crying the blue's over her problems that she & Jon created & she cont. to look for sympathy over it.
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 11:55pm
Bless Lisa's heart!
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 9:32pm
Really!! This is not appropriate on this post. Take your Kate fight somewhere else. CREEPS
We are all praying for you Lisa. Your husband was a great human being.
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 7:55pm
Ya'll are just jealous of Kate!
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 7:36pm
I'm thrilled to hear that, Im_in_PR. Here's hoping she stays far, far, far away from Reading, PA and settles out in CA!
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 7:32pm
In a sad little corner of Maria Shriver's big Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Kate Gosselin was tucked into a tent Monday night, waiting to sign copies of her new book. But there were few fans who wanted her autograph.
Posted Tue, 10/27/2009 - 7:10pm