Star Olivia: My cancer is back
Singer, 68, forced to put tour on hold
OLIVIA Newton-John has postponed her upcoming North American tour after revealing her breast cancer has returned.
The Australian star, 68, said she was “reluctantly” rescheduling next month’s concerts in Canada and the US following her diagnosis.
In a statement on her Facebook page the singer said the back pain that initially caused her to put on hold the first half of her tour had turned out to be breast cancer that had “metastasized to the sacrum”.
She said: “I decided on my direction of therapies after consultation with my doctors and natural therapists and the medical team at my Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia.”
She will receive natural wellness therapies and a “short course of photon radiation therapy”.
Newton-John is “confident she will be back later in the year, better than ever, to celebrate her shows,” a statement added. It is the second time the star, who rose to fame in the cult 1978 movie Grease with John Travolta, 63, has contracted breast cancer. The mum-of-one was diagnosed in 1992 before going on to have chemotherapy, a mastectomy and breast reconstruction.