Olivia Newton-John isn’t ruling anything out in terms of treatment for her breast cancer.
In a pre-taped interview that aired Thursday on “Today,” the “Grease” star shared that she’s using marijuana that her husband, John Easterling, grows to help relieve the pain and nausea that come with cancer and chemotherapy.
“People have this vision from the ’60s of people just sitting around and getting stoned,” Newton-John, 68, told Natalie Morales. “I think that it’s not about that. This plant is a healing plant. I think we need to change the vision of what it is because it helped me greatly and it helps with pain and inflammation.”
Newton-John, who beat cancer once before, also credited her overall wellness plan with helping her get through the disease the first time. There’s now a cancer treatment center in Melbourne, Australia, that bears her name and offers patients a variety of holistic treatments including yoga, massages, art and music therapy.
The “Let’s Get Physical” singer admitted that her cancer relapse was “a little surprising.”
“I never would have associated it because in my mind, it was over,” Newton-John said after explaining she thought pain she had been feeling was sciatica. “I had finished with it.”
Newton-John is choosing to maintain a positive attitude as she treats her breast cancer, which has metastasized to the sacrum.
“I don’t read into prognosis and statistics because I think that can really be depressing,” she said. “I’m not going to be one of those statistics, I’m going to be fine.”
She added, “I will probably deal with this in my life as an ongoing thing. I think you can live with cancer the way you live with other things if you take care of yourself.”