Olivia Newton-John.

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This Monday, the British-Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73 surrounded by family and friends on her ranch in Southern California, according to her husband, John Easterling.

Newton-John has passed away "after a 30-year journey from cancer."

"He has lost his battle against metastatic breast cancer," said a source close to the family quoted by the US news portal TMZ.

"Olivia has been a symbol of triumph and hope for more than 30 years, in which she has shared her experience with breast cancer," said the husband, who asked that "instead of flowers" those interested send donations to the Olivia Newton-John Foundation, dedicated to research into plant medicine and cancer.

Although Newton-John (United Kingdom, 1948) developed his career in show business as a singer, with hits like If Not for You, Let Me Be There and Have You Never Been Mellow, his name was immortalized in Hollywood by starring alongside John Travolta the musical Grease

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After his great success, he made films like Xanadu and established himself with songs like Physical, from 1981.

Eternal movie star thanks to a movie

In 1992, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, but it remitted.

She was hospitalized again in 2013 and they managed to stop it, but it resurfaced in 2017. “For me, psychologically, it is better not to have a clue of what awaits me or how long the last person who had what I have lived,” the actress was honest. during an interview on the Australian television program 60 minutes.

In her long career as a singer, she sold more than one hundred million albums and is still listed on the Billboard list as one of the best artists of all time.

As for feature films, he barely took part in a dozen, counting cinema and telefilms.

His debut was in 1965 with the hour-long Austrian production The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee.

Her latest work, The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee from 2020, participating as a secondary.

Without a doubt, she was enough with the mythical Grease to lift her up to the Olympus of the stars.

And from there she would never descend.

(With information from Cinemania)