OLIVIA DIED TOTING TORCH FOR TRAVOLTA!
Grease love story was all too REAL
ANGELIC Olivia Newton-John went to her grave secretly carrying a torch for her Grease co-star and soulmate John Travolta — and the smitten Saturday Night Fever stud loved her right back, sources dish.
The Hopelessly Devoted to You songbird died at 73 on Aug. 8 after a heroic decadeslong battle with breast cancer, leaving her close pal John, 68, heartbroken.
Tipsters tell GLOBE the Grease screen sweethearts had the same passion for each other in real life — but the timing was never right.
When the pair stepped into their roles as greaser Danny Zuko and goody two-shoes Sandy Olsson in the 1978 movie musical, John was still reeling from the loss of his love Diana Hyland — who’d died in his arms from breast cancer just three months earlier.
Insiders say Olivia helped John navigate his grief, and he returned the favor when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and again in 2013 — and after she received a devastating stage 4 death sentence in 2017!
According to spies, the hunk was also there for Olivia when her 11-year marriage to Xanadu dancer Matt Lattanzi collapsed in 1995. But by that time, he’d already
tied the knot with Jerry
ton. However, their 28-year love story abruptly ended with Kelly’s breast cancer death at 57 in 2020. Olivia and John’s
“combined tragedies continued to make them as close as two people could be — without becoming lovers!” a source dishes.
Pals confide after Kelly passed away the Aussie legend offered her support — but by that point she was happily married to John Easterling.
“Fate cruelly kept them apart,” an insider notes.
After her death, John wrote to his “dearest Olivia” on social media: “I love you so much. We will see you down the road, and we will all be together again. Yours from the moment I saw you and forever! Your Danny, your John!”