John Easterling continues to be very a lot in love with late spouse Olivia Newton-John.
Two years after the Grease star’s death from breast cancer at age 73, it is a love that Easterling now pours into the mission she started many years in the past, to eradicate most cancers and supply higher look after these affected by it.
“I am doing tremendous unbelievable,” the naturopathic entrepreneur, 72, tells PEOPLE solely, opening up about life now. “I am staying very busy with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund and the analysis that is happening there. We’re sponsoring plant medication and most cancers analysis. And the great thing about that’s that we’re seeing fairly beautiful ends in the early phases.”
He is additionally within the midst of making an attempt to sell the sprawling Santa Ynez, Calif. ranch the place he and Newton-John spent many completely satisfied years collectively, and the place she in the end died. “I am nonetheless on the ranch, however we simply market it. I’ve obtained the animals right here, the horses and cat and canine. We’re all simply shifting ahead.”
When his spouse was nonetheless alive, “we had such a stunning time right here, however it was our place and now I am recognizing it is time to let anyone else take pleasure in that peace and serenity and sweetness,” he says. “People who find themselves in an identical circumstance I do know would perceive.”
Although Easterling is able to relocate, planning to separate his time between Florida and Peru, he says that his coronary heart is not going wherever anytime quickly.
“I’ve that very sturdy presence of her on a regular basis. And typically even final night time with the complete moon, she was so current. After which right this moment I used to be simply listening to the track “My Dream”, the Jim Brickman song, and it was simply so spectacular,” he says of the newly launched single that includes a protracted misplaced recording of Newton-John. “It actually simply despatched me right into a supernatural house of emotion and pleasure.”
Easterling nonetheless feels so linked to Newton-John, it is laborious for him to replicate on the potential of discovering romantic love once more.
“Olivia and I had a love so large and so indefinite in time,” he says. “We embraced it as one thing even larger than ourselves. We by no means had any petty arguments or something like that. I imply, our complete life expertise and the issues that we shared and believed in had been simply too essential. I did not even suppose love may very well be like that.”
He continues, “That is not going to occur once more, I imply, I do not anticipate it. Extra not too long ago, I am getting messages coming from Olivia once I’m in Peru at our particular locations there, and people messages are like ‘Love life, reside life. Life may be very, very valuable, and do not waste a second of life as a result of it is a very skinny veil that separates us.'”
Love, says Easterling, “can specific itself in lots of varieties and some ways. It is having loving relationships with everybody in your life. It is simply completely different expressions.” However as for locating the kind of love he had with Newton-John, “I could not think about it being potential the primary time. So I am unable to think about it being potential once more.”
He does nonetheless, think about he’ll see Newton-John once more. “I see and really feel her presence on a regular basis, and I do know we’ll be fully reunited once more. In order that’s giving me the power and the vitality to essentially push ahead.”