We Feel Her Every Single Day

THE ICON'S HUSBAND & DAUGHTER REFLECT ON LIFE WITHOUT HER AND THE LOVE THAT REMAINS

- JANINE RUBENSTEIN

Over the past year, Olivia Newton-John's loved ones haven't just sensed the late icon's presence-they've seen it too. "Two weeks after she passed, my phone accidentally took a picture of my dog, and there floating by his head was this little blue orb, the same color as this," says her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 37, touching an aquamarine pendant necklace her stepdad, John Easterling, 71, had once given her mom, who then gifted it to her before she died last August. "Mom and I had talked years back. We'd watch these paranormal shows, and I'd say, 'You gotta show up for me.' And she was like, 'I'll show up as one of those orb things.""

Easterling has had similar encounters. Two months ago he visited Peru with his wife's ashes to hold a private ceremony at the spot where they said "I do," commemorating what would have been their 15th wedding anniversary. "I took a picture, and this blue orb is right between my eyes," he says, showing off the image on his phone. "It's been a supernatural year."

On Aug. 8, 2022, NewtonJohn died peacefully at age 73 at her home in Santa Ynez, Calif., after a 30-year journey with breast cancer. (First diagnosed with the disease in 1992, she privately faced a recurrence in 2013 before publicly revealing the cancer had metastasized to her sacrum in 2017.) While the world lost a beloved movie and music star-revered for her role as Sandy in Grease, timeless pop hits like "Physical" and a famously positive attitude in the face of multiple cancer diagnoses-Lattanzi and Easterling lost the person they loved most.

"There's no replacing her," says Easterling.