Patrick Swayze: his last words to his wife before dying – Gala

Patrick Swayze, interpreter of the famous dancer Johnny in dirty dancing breathed his last 13 years ago, on September 14, 2009. Before dying, the cinema icon had made a final declaration to the woman of his life, Lina Niemi.

“We don’t leave Baby in a corner.” Patrick Swayze, the unforgettable interpreter of the hero of dirty dancing is dead 13 years ago now. By his side until the actor died of pancreatic cancer on September 14, 2009, Lisa Niemi, his wife, also an actress. A beautiful love story that ended tragically. Before giving his last breath, the famous actor had made a final last statement to the one who had shared his life for 34 years. In his memoirs Worth Fighting forpublished in 2011, Lina Niemi had revealed the last words of the Hollywood icon. “My last words to Patrick? ‘I like you’. And these are the last words he addressed to me.she confided.

It must be said that Lisa Niemi had not only supported Patrick Swayze in his fight against the disease. The duo had known each other since childhood, when Lisa Niemi was taking dance lessons from the actor’s mother. They then moved into a roommate in New York before marrying in 1975. A solid life as a couple until the last moments of the star of Ghost. “I lay down next to Buddy, held his hand and felt his pulse again… And then he stopped breathing“, had delivered the artist in his memoirs. In this moving book, she also returned to the battle that Patrick Swayze had tried to win against cancer. I know he spent every day fighting for his life… He survived 22 monthswhich was miraculous with the diagnosis he received”, she wrote in her book. Bidding farewell to the great love of her life, Lisa Niemi assured that this step had been “the worst thing in the world to go through”.

© AGENCY / BESTIMAGEPatrick Swayze in love with his wife Lisa Niemi, January 1, 1993.

Patrick Swayze: what happens to his great love Lisa Niemi?

The years go by but Lisa Niemi never really recovered from the death of the love of her life. Whether the dancer remarried in 2014 to jeweler Albert DePriscoshe never forgot Patrick Swayze.“When you lose someone, you never stop loving her, she confided in 2019 in a documentary devoted to the actor broadcast on Netflix. To honor the memory of the actor, the widow of Patrick Swayze devotes herself today to charitable works and is in particular Ambassador of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer, a charity dedicated to the fight against pancreatic cancer. A way to show that their love story is eternal.

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Patrick Swayze: his last words to his wife before dying – Gala