John Easterling opens up about his undying love for his wife a year after her death
John Easterling has spent the past year finding light in the darkness.
With losing wife Olivia Newton-John to breast cancer at age 73 last August, “Things aren’t easy,” he says, “but you always have to just dig. Olivia was able to never lose sight of the good things. Love is everywhere.”
An herbalist and naturopathic entrepreneur, Easterling, 71, traveled to his and Newton-John’s “special place” in Peru this past June to hold a private ceremony with her ashes at the spot where they said “I do,” commemorating what would have been their 15th wedding anniversary.
The trip gave him perspective: “It lightened my heart and created a very strong focus forward. I had 15 years with this extraordinary human being. That experience itself is worth a lifetime.”