‘GREASE’ ACTRESS HAS CANCER FOR 3RD TIME
Olivia Newton-John thankful that cannabis oil can be used for treatment
OLIVIA Newton-John, the Australian singer who found worldwide fame in the hit movie Grease, has revealed she has been diagnosed with cancer for the third time.
The 69-year-old told Australian television broadcaster Channel Seven that doctors had discovered a tumour at the base of her spine.
She has undergone radiation treatment and is also treating the disease with natural therapies, such as cannabis oil.
“I’m still treating it, and I’m treating it naturally and doing really well, yeah,” she told the network on Sunday from her home in California.
Newton-John was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, but beat the disease. In 2013, she found out that she had cancer in her shoulder.
She said she had moments of despair, but was keeping positive.
“There are moments. I’m human. So if I allow myself to go there, I could easily create that, you know, big fear.”
Newton-John, a supporter of cancer charities since her first diagnosis, said she was hopeful that growing cannabis for personal medicinal use would become legal in
Australia, like in California.
“In California, it’s legal to grow a certain amount of plants for your own medicinal purposes. So, he (husband John Easterling) makes me tinctures. It’s hard to say, they help with pain.
“I’m very lucky that I live in a state where it’s legal and that I have a husband that is a plantmedicine man.
“My dream is that, in Australia soon, it will be available to all the people going through cancer that causes pain.”
In Australia, medicinal cannabis is legal by prescription for certain illnesses, although the laws governing its use varies from state to state.