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- During an April 7 appearance on the Amy and T.J. Podcast with hosts Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes, the widow of the late Dirty Dancing star, 67, recalled how Patrick told her he had been diagnosed with cancer. "When he first found out he had pancreatic cancer he turned to me and said, 'I’m a dead man,'" Lisa recalled.
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Apr 9, 2024 · Lisa Niemi Swayze is looking back on the first moments her husband told her he was sick. During an April 7 appearance on the Amy and T.J. Podcast with hosts Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes,...
Apr 10, 2024 · For 50 minutes the now 67-year-old Lisa Niemi Swayze chatted with the television couple Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes on their podcast, Amy and T.J., where she explained that as soon as the actor was...
- María Porcel
Apr 27, 2024 · Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi Swayze has opened up about her final years with the Hollywood star, who died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. By Lucas Hill-Paul 17:00, Sat, Apr...
- Lucas Hill-Paul
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Apr 29, 2023 · Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi Swayze opened up about carrying on the late actor's memory 14 years after his death. The "Ghost" star died at the age of 57 in September 2009 after...
- Ashley Hume
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He came to me and he said, “Do my eyes look yellow?” He had some digestive problems — pain that wouldn’t go away. But it was mostly the yellow eyes that sent us to the doctor. He said, “Oh, we’ll go in next week.” But I thought, “Yellow eyes just doesn’t sound normal. We need to go tomorrow.” We went to the doctor and the moment he looked at him an...
I didn’t know much about it, but he did. He had an endoscopic procedure to verify it. The doctors had given me the news, but Patrick was still pretty drugged up from the procedure, and I didn’t feel good about saying anything to him. I woke up in the hospital room, and the doctor was sitting in there talking to him. As soon as the doctor left the r...
I think Patrick would have preferred to have kept his battle very private. He went out and shot a whole TV series when he was fighting pancreatic cancer, which was extraordinary because he was putting in 14 hours a day, five days a week and getting chemo on the weekend. As we say in Texas, he was kicking butt and taking names. Just amazing strength...
I’m a pretty tough gal. I’m from a long line of Finns, and we’re very tough and we can hang in there. But at the same time, as the caregiver, if I were doing it again — and it’s very hard because you care so much — you’ve got to take care of yourself, too. Find a way to give yourself breaks and nourish yourself. If somebody came over and was watchi...
It’s been quite a journey being without him because we pretty much spent all our adult life together. I felt like I was 17 years old all over again and learning how to live again because I’d never not been part of a couple. It was a very difficult transition. It’s like losing an arm and a leg and having to learn how to walk and function all over ag...
Be open. I can’t tell you how many widows say, “I’m never going to get married again. I’m never selling this house.” And you know what? You do it when you’re ready and not a moment before. A person wrote in to me said, “When you’ve been in a successful relationship or marriage, how could you not want that in your life again?” When I fell in love wi...
Apr 8, 2024 · It’s been almost 15 years since Lisa Niemi lost husband Patrick Swayze to pancreatic cancer. The dancer recalled the moment she first found out about the Dirty Dancing actor’s heartbreaking...
Apr 24, 2024 · Patrick Swayze with his wife Lisa Niemi during "Keeping Mum" London Premiere. Goffredo di Crollalanza/FilmMagic. Early detection is a problem, says Lisa, so for people like Patrick, the...
