OLIVIA'S MISSING LOVER THE LETTER THAT PROVES HE'S ALIVE

Fresh details emerge in Patrick McDermott's mysterious disappearance

A new podcast has reignited rumours that the late Olivia Newton-John's former boyfriend Patrick McDermott, who went missing 17 years ago, may still be alive.

A new witness has come forward claiming the cameraman - who was last seen in June 2005 after going on an overnight fishing trip off the coast of LA left behind roses and a note for the Aussie singer, suggesting it's evidence the then 48-year-old was planning to disappear.

A FINAL FAREWELL

"The note told her he'd always loved her and always will," private investigator Philip Klein told the true-crime podcast Casefile Presents: Pseudocide. "They'd been having a lot of problems. Patrick was backing out of the relationship... The evidence shows that Patrick didn't like Hollywood.

"Hollywood's a place of money, but it's also a place of very poor people who are trying to make it. He just never could make it." According to numerous reports, finances are another important piece of the puzzle.

The single father-of-one - who also left behind 12-year-old son Chance, now 30 - filed for bankruptcy, owing more than $45,000 five years before his disappearance.