Olivia Newton-John duets with her daughter
by Brianne Tracy
When Olivia Newton-John got an email out of the blue from a woman she had met years ago telling her there was a song she needed to record she felt a tinge of dread. “I thought, oh gosh, I know it’s not going to be good. How am I going to tell her?” says the beloved Grease star, 72. But when she listened to the song, titled “Window In The Wall,” for the first time, she was on board. “It moved me to tears,” she says. “It’s a very healing song.” Newton-John recruited her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 35, to join her on the track. “I was flattered and honored,” says Lattanzi, Newton-John’s daughter with ex-husband Matt Lattanzi. “She could have asked anyone, and she asked me. That meant the world to me.”
Though they’ve always shared a tight bond, the mother-daughter duo have gotten even closer as they’ve quarantined together in California during the pandemic. “I worked my whole life, and the longest period I can remember being home was my pregnancy with Chloe and the first year or two of her life,” says Newton-John. “so it’s been wonderful reconnecting with my baby. She is my reason to be.”
The past few years have been difficult ones for Newton-John, who was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in 2017. But she says she’s “feeling great” - and excited for all that’s to come in 2021. She’s planning to release a new duets album, and she continues to support research into plant medicine for cancer with her husband, John Easterling, through their Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund. Newton-John will also watch Lattanzi walk down the aisle with her fiance of 10 years, James Driskill, in a “small wedding” later this year. “I’m so lucky to still be doing all these things,” says the star. “I don’t think I imagined living this long! I feel very blessed.”
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