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Lisa Nieme, wife of the late Patrick Swayze - Source: Reuters -
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Patrick Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi, will talk about loving - and
losing - her Hollywood star husband in a live interview with talk
show host Oprah Winfery due to be aired on Friday.
Winfrey's website,
www.oprah.com, said The Oprah
Winfrey Show interview with Niemi, Swayze's wife of 34 years, was
her first one-on-one since her husband died in September following
a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Niemi and Swayze co-authored the Dirty Dancing star's memoirs, The
Time of My Life, which went on sale late last month.
In the book, Swayze, who was 57 when he died, said he had made
peace with the notion of dying from cancer after initially finding
his diagnosis a "cruel joke."
Swayze was diagnosed in January 2008 with pancreatic cancer, which
has only a five percent, five-year survival rate.
While undergoing chemotherapy, Swayze filmed a new TV police drama
series called The Beast, which was broadcast in the United States
earlier this year.
Swayze's storied career included runs on Broadway in the plays
Grease and Chicago.
He also starred in the 1990 blockbuster Ghost and the 2001 movie Donnie Darko.
