Olivia Newton-John will receive a state funeral, her niece, Tottie Goldsmith, confirmed, while revealing her last conversation with her aunt. | Channel24
"We will, on behalf of not just our family, but I think Australia needs it. She's so loved," Goldsmith said of accepting the offer of a state funeral for the star, while the premier of the Australian state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, further confirmed the news.
"She took her cancer journey and used that to save lives and change lives, and that's just a deeply impressive thing," he said, per ."The research that's done there , the treatment, the care, the love and support that is central to that place is a lasting legacy to the person that she was."-- Tattie Goldsmith reveals her aunt's thoughts about dying"It wasn't just the cancer that got her, it was other complications, being in a hospital and with a very susceptible immune system," she shared."She got secondary infections. She really went down in the past five, six days.
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