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Olivia: I’m not dying!

CANCER-BATTLE GREASE STAR BLASTS RUMOURS

- By ANDREW JAMESON andrew.jameson@dailystar.co.uk

GREASE legend Olivia Newton-John has denied claims she has just weeks to live.

Reports in the US said the actress’s “bodily functions were shutting down” and her daughter was bringing forward her wedding so Olivia could attend before she died.

They even attributed a quote from the cancer-hit singer, saying: “I refuse to die in a hospital room. I’ll go on my own terms, in our home and in my own bed, but not until Chloe says: ‘I do’.”

But last night her social media manager Randy Slovacek said: “We have stated over and over again publicly she’s feeling better.

“People just seem to want to believe some dramatic turn.”

The 70-year-old revealed her third cancer diagnosis last September. Olivia – best known

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for her iconic role as Sandy in 1978 smash musical Grease – survived breast cancer in 1992 but revealed it had returned in 2013.

Her third diagnosis, a tumour in the lower back, was made in 2017 but she waited a year before going public. The mum of one said her treatment was “going really well”. She added: I believe I will win over it and that’s my goal.

“A lot of people see it as a fight, and wherever you choose to see it, that’s your prerogativ­e. I see it as part of my mission.”

The US reports claimed that Olivia’s daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 32, and fiancé James Driskill would marry early so she could be there.

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