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CANCER-HAUNTED OLIVIA DOWNS WITCH DOC’S BREW!

Desperate star turns to jungle potion in bid for cure

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GREASE star Olivia Newton-John is so desperate in her last-ditch battle against incurable stage IV cancer she’s knocking back a bizarre LSDlike potion concocted by a witch doctor in the Amazon jungle!

And now, the magic brew she’s used at the urging of vitamin-mogul hubby

John Easterling has left her convinced she will beat the deadly disease, say sources!

After the 71-year-old Physical singer downed “a little cupful” of the plant-based hallucinog­en ayahuasca, she was hit with “room-spinning” delusions and nausea.

But shortly after, she says, “my whole body was at peace. I had a feeling of euphoria. I’d been taking antidepres­sants for six months,

but from that day, I stopped."

The Summer Nights songbird had stunned doctors by winning two long battles with cancer — first a bout with the cruel killer in 1992 and then a recurrence in 2013.

But then she was clobbered with a terrifying stage IV diagnosis in 2017!

She first tried remedies from deep in the Amazon region in 2008 when she and North Carolina native John traveled to Peru to meet local healers.

Olivia said it led her to seek plant-based medi

cations and turn to cannabis to wean her off addictive morphine-based painkiller­s.

John insists the herbal remedies have “Olivia’s cancer markers … moving in the right direction. This is the third recurrence of metastatic breast cancer, and this is not normally what you see happen.

“We’re absolutely thrilled!” Reveals Olivia: “Cannabis has now become a big part of my life” by controllin­g “excruciati­ng … pain … in my sacrum [base of the spine],” where her cancer has spread.

“You don’t die from taking cannabis, but you do from taking opiates.”

Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who hasn’t treated Olivia, says “getting a break from constant pain is beneficial, noting: “Olivia has found nonaddicti­ve relief and that is to be applauded.”

But Dr. Stuart Fischer, who also has not treated Olivia, believes the results are nothing more than a placebo, saying: “This is a psychedeli­c with no accepted medicinal value.”

 ??  ?? Newton-John is battling cancer for a third time, and
her husband, John Easterling, insists plantbased meds have helped
the beloved star
Newton-John is battling cancer for a third time, and her husband, John Easterling, insists plantbased meds have helped the beloved star

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