Olivia Newton-John talks about the second relapse of her breast cancer and her homegrown cannabis treatment!
- English-Australian actress Olivia Newton-John has been diagnosed with a relapse of breast cancer
- But this is her second relapse since her first diagnosis two decades back
Olivia Newton-John reveals cancer relapse
Olivia Newton-John disclosed that her breast cancer metastasis has been picked up from the base of her spine last year.
She was on the Australian TV show called Sunday Nights when she said:
“My husband’s always there, and he’s always there to support me, and I believe I will win over it and that’s my goal,”
Olivia is on home treatment for the cancer recurrence
John also revealed that she has resorted to homegrown cannabis as a supplementary treatment to help her fight the disease. Olivia is able to procure cannabis easily seeing her husband John Easterling owns the Amazon Herb Company. They have a ranch in California where cannabis is grown and marketed.
Olivia said:
“In California, it’s legal to grow a certain amount of plants for your own medicinal purposes,”
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She added :
“I’m very lucky that I live in a state where it’s legal and that I have a husband that is a plant-medicine man.”
She has also gone sugar-free completely and is just using common medicines, she said.
John had earlier revealed last December that she is having pain due to breast cancer and is using dope to ease it. She described it as an agonizing pain severe enough to need the highest pain relievers.
She informed her viewers that in order to control her disease and halt its progress she drinks a cannabis mixture at specified times and this mixture is made by her herbalist husband.
Olivia said:
“My husband’s a plant medicine man so he grew cannabis and made tinctures for me for pain and inflammation.”
She feels that employing the plant’s magical miracle qualities for the disease made sense to her and she felt it was better medicine than popping pills or application of certain steroid creams.
She justified :
“It helped me a lot with pain because I don’t like taking prescription drugs.
“It’s kind and compassionate. It’s what should be available for everybody to use.”
About Olivia Newton-John ‘s breast cancer
It was in 1992 that Olivia was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had undergone a partial mastectomy for it and was also subjected to chemotherapy. She was fine but 5 years back she had a recurrence of the disease.
In 2013, the cancer was diagnosed in her shoulder and she had to postpone her US and Canada tours at that time.
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And now last year, it was stated that cancer has been picked up from the sacrum region of her spine. It was painful and also caused difficulty in walking.
She had said:
“The pain was the hardest thing. I can walk, but I can’t go long distances.”
She is optimistic that she will win this time as well and she has the prayers of her fans with her.
Reference: CNN, BBC, mirror UK
