Music
Album helped Newton-John to deal with grief
Published Saturday, Apr 28 2007, 16:17 BST | By Daniel Kilkelly
Olivia Newton-John has revealed that recording latest album Grace and Gratitude helped her to deal with grief for her late partner.
The singer was devastated when Patrick McDermott disappeared while on a fishing trip off the coast of California in 2005.
"It helped me greatly because I found that when I write music -- when you write lyrics, like keeping a diary, writing poetry or a song - you take yourself out of your emotional body into more of an analytical body and it takes your mind out of grief," Newton-John told Reuters.
"It kind of takes you into the healing and when I was recording the songs, it was a great cathartic kind of thing, because it was where I needed to be."
The singer was devastated when Patrick McDermott disappeared while on a fishing trip off the coast of California in 2005.
"It helped me greatly because I found that when I write music -- when you write lyrics, like keeping a diary, writing poetry or a song - you take yourself out of your emotional body into more of an analytical body and it takes your mind out of grief," Newton-John told Reuters.
"It kind of takes you into the healing and when I was recording the songs, it was a great cathartic kind of thing, because it was where I needed to be."
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