Patrick Swayze's Widow: "I Feel Every Contour of His Hand in Mine": PHOTO
On The Oprah Winfrey Show Friday, Patrick Swayz e 's widow Lisa Niemi spoke candidly about losing her husband just six weeks ago to Pancreatic Cancer. She told Winfrey that Swayze initially was given around three months to live when he was first diagnosed two years ago. He managed fight the disease for 22 months. "When we first had the diagnosis, I cried in front of him," she told Winfrey, according to Entertainment Tonigh t , which has posted an excerpt of the interview. "I said, 'This is the...

Patrick Swayze - Niemi Feared Drink Would Kill Swayze: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer. The couple hit a bump in their 34-year marriage back in 2003, when the Ghost actor's drinking spun out of control. They separated for a year, and Niemi reveals she left home because she couldn't bear to watch her husband kill himself. During an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show on Friday (30Oct09), Niemi said, "He was imploding pretty badly... It was very...

Patrick Swayze - Niemi Longs For Swayze To Return In Spirit Form: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze's widow is willing the actor to return to her in spirit form. Lisa Niemi admits she's finding it hard to detach from the late Ghost actor, nearly two months after he lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer - and would love him to visit her from beyond the grave. During an appearance on Oprah Winfrey's talk show on Friday (30Oct09), she said, "I used to be so afraid of spirits and ghosts. Now I'm like 'show yourself'." But she admits she still feels Swayze's presence and hasn't yet...

Patrick Swayze - Niemi Feared Drink Would Kill Swayze
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer.The couple hit a bump in their 34-year...

Lisa Niemi on Patrick Swayze: 'I Felt Like He Hasn't Left': PHOTO
Lisa Niemi was candid with Oprah about her husband Patrick Swayze 's recent death, and their life together on Friday's live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Lisa told Oprah that Patrick was given three months or less to live when he was first diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer two years ago, but managed to hang on for 22 months. Lisa explained that she only allowed herself to cry one time in front of Patrick, when he was first diagnosed: "When we first had the diagnosis, I cried in front of...

Wife Feared Alcohol Would Kill Patrick Swayze: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer.

Lisa Niemi on Patrick Swayze: "I felt like he hasn't left"
Lisa Niemi opened up to Oprag about her husband Patrick Swayze's death from Cancer on Friday's (October 30th) episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Entertainment Tonight reports that Lisa told Oprah that Patrick was given less than three months to live when he was first diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer two years ago, but managed to hang on for 22 months. "When we first had the diagnosis, I cried in front of him. I said, this is the one time I'm going to do this. ... When he looked at me and looked in my eyes,

Patrick Swayze's Wife: I Feel Like He Hasn't Left: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi, whose marriage began in their 20s and lasted for 34 years, led one of Hollywood's storied love affairs – but the Dirty Dancing actor's widow reveals that there were times when their union teetered to the brink of breakup. Six years ago, Niemi tells Oprah Winfrey in her first interview since Swayze's death, her husband descended into a period of heavy drinking and "very dark thoughts. "He was imploding pretty badly," she said during Friday's show , so much so...

Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi discusses grief on -Oprah'
Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze’s widow, was on Oprah today for her first TV interview, after an appearance earlier this week at the Women’s Conference 2009 roundtable on grief. Niemi told Oprah that she struggled with the shift from medical treatment to palliative care, and that she “feel[s] like he hasn’t left.” She also discussed the couple’s temporary separation in 2003 due to Swayze’s alcohol abuse at the time. “He was imploding pretty...

Swayze's Widow: "I Feel Like He Hasn't Left" [Clips]: PHOTO
Today on Oprah, Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze's wife of 34 years, revealed that they separated for a year because of his drinking. "I didn't want to be there to watch him die," she said. "Not like that." Clip at left.

'I wish Ghost was real' says Patrick Swayze's widow as she talks about grieving for the actor: PHOTO
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Niemi Feared Drink Would Kill Swayze
Patrick Swayze 's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer. The couple hit a bump in their 34-year marriage back in 2003, when the Ghost actor's drinking spun out of control. They separated for a year, and Niemi reveals she left home because she couldn't bear to watch her husband kill himself. During an appearance on Oprah Winfrey 's talk show on Friday, Niemi said, "He was imploding pretty badly... It...

Niemi Longs For Swayze To Return In Spirit Form
Patrick Swayze 's widow is willing the actor to return to her in spirit form. Lisa Niemi admits she's finding it hard to detach from the late Ghost actor, nearly two months after he lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer - and would love him to visit her from beyond the grave. During an appearance on Oprah Winfrey 's talk show on Friday, she said, "I used to be so afraid of spirits and ghosts. Now I'm like 'show yourself'." But she admits she still feels...

Patrick Swayze's Wife: I Feel Like He Hasn't Left: PHOTO
"I can feel every contour of his hand in mine," Lisa Niemi tells Oprah

Niemi Wishes She'd Told Swayze 'i Love You' More: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze's grieving widow Lisa Niemi wishes she had expressed her love for the late actor more frequently during their 34-year romance. The dancer is still struggling to come to terms with the death of Swayze, who lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer in September (09), and she has one big regret about their time together. I'm just going to have to go on until then She tells People magazine, "I've spent two thirds of my life with him. My regret is that I didn't tell him that I loved him...

Niemi feared drink would kill Swayze
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer.

Niemi Wishes She'd Told Swayze 'i Love You' More: PHOTO
Patrick Swayze's grieving widow Lisa Niemi wishes she had expressed her love for the late actor more frequently during their 34-year romance. The dancer is still struggling to come to terms with the death of Swayze, who lost his battle with Pancreatic Cancer in September (09), and she has one big regret about their time together. I'm just going to have to go on until then She tells People magazine, "I've spent two thirds of my life with him. My regret is that I didn't tell him that I loved him...

Niemi feared drink would kill Swayze
Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi feared his alcohol abuse would kill him years before his tragic death from Pancreatic Cancer.. Up to the minute entertainment news.

Lisa Niemi on Patrick Swayze: 'I Felt Like He Hasn't Left': PHOTO
Lisa Niemi was candid with Oprah about her husband Patrick Swayze's recent death, and their life together on Friday's live episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."<br />

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Patrick Swayze’s widow, Lisa Niemi was on Oprah today to talk about the passing of her husband. Now, I really really hate to tramp on anything that a grieving person says but, seeing as how the actor has only been gone for a little over a month, and in combination with some of the things that Lisa said, I’m starting to think that maybe it was just too soon for her to start talking about Patrick’s death. She likened his death to those of the animals that her and Patrick had...

Niemi wishes she'd told Swayze 'I love you' more
Niemi wishes she'd told Swayze 'I love you' more Patrick Swayze's grieving widow Lisa Niemi wishes she had expressed her love for the late actor more frequently during their 34-year romance. Latest Celebrity News

Patrick Swayze's widow to make "Oprah" appearanc
Less than two months after the death of her husband Patrick Swayze, Lisa Niemi, will open up to Oprah Winfrey about her life with and love for the actor – and what it was like losing him – in her first one-on-one interview since his death. Swayze, 57, died Sept. 14 after a protracted battle with Pancreatic Cancer. He and Niemi, 53, were married for 34 years, meeting as teenage students at his mother's dance studio. Niemi will appear on Friday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, on...

Patrick Swayze's Widow Breaks Silence
NEW YORK -- Patrick Swayze's widow has told a crowd near Los Angeles that the Loss of her husband of 34 years has left her with sadness "on a cellular level." Lisa Niemi, making her first public comments since Swayze's death last month from Pancreatic Cancer, told attendees Tuesday at a conference that her pain "made all the sadness and grief previous to that look like an intellectual concept." Though she cared for her husband during his 22-month battle with the disease, Niemi says grappling...