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Patrick Swayze’s Widow Lisa Has Read New ‘Dirty Dancing’ Script, Confirms It Will Honor Late Husband

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Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, is sharing her thoughts on the upcoming Dirty Dancing sequel. “I actually got to read the script,” Lisa, 69, exclusively told Us Weekly while discussing the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s annual Purple Stride Walk. “I was very moved by it.” Patrick, who died in 2009  after a 22-month battle with pancreatic cancer at age 57, starred in the original 1987 film as Johnny Castle, a charismatic but closed…

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Patrick Swayze, who thanks to films like Ghost, called Him Bodhi or Dirty Dancing became one of Hollywood's most famous stars between the late 80s and early 90s, died in 2009 from prostate cancer.Now, his widow, Lisa Niemi, reveals that he continues to communicate with him.In statements collected by US Weekly magazine, Niemi argues that "I still feel sorry for myself every day and hear what he would say to me about certain things. It's wonderful…

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From fiction to reality and with the same protagonist. Ghost the cult film of 1990, told the story of a ghost, played by Patrick Swayze, who tries to protect his girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore). The widow of the actor, who died in 2009 at 57 years of a pancreatic tumor in stage IV, revealed that she lives a situation very similar to the one told by the film. Lisa Niemi, wife of Patrick Swayze, confessed to Us Weekly, Friday, April 17, to talk to t…

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More than three decades after his greatest successes, Patrick Swayze remains one of the most memorable faces of late '80s and early '90s Hollywood. His role in Ghost, which became a romantic icon of popular cinema, and films like Dirty Dancing and Point Break propelled him to global stardom. But now his name is back in the news due to some intimate and surprising statements from his widow, Lisa Niemi, who claims that even today—17 years after hi…

Patrick was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008 and, from the beginning, he was well aware of the seriousness of the situation.

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Il Fatto Quotidiano broke the news in Rome, Italy on Saturday, April 18, 2026.
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