Olivia Newton-John’s Daughter Chloe Lattanzi Honors Late Mother at State Memorial Service: ‘She Was My Safe Space’

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A final sendoff. Olivia Newton-John was honored with a state memorial service in her native Australia on Sunday, February 26, with tributes from her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, and her husband, John Easterling.“I stand here before you so desperately, wanting to feel strong and confident and speak eloquently, but the truth is I feel like a little girl lost without her mother,” the “Play With Me” singer, 37, told the audience, standing with her husband, James Driskill, by her side. “She was my safe space, my guide, my biggest fan and the earth beneath my feet.”In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesThe Los Angeles native continued: “I know she’s here, standing beside me and within me.

I can hear her voice, [saying], ‘You’re safe, my darling. Don’t be afraid. You’re so much stronger than you think. Speak from your heart.

That’s all you have to do.'”Lattanzi added that her mother “could find the beauty in everything,” and she loved watching Newton-John appreciate nature. “My favorite thing to do was watch her watching the birds and the flowers, smelling her roses and the joy it brought to her face was a thing of beauty,” the Rock the Cradle alum said. “I loved making her tea and then making it five times again until I got it right.”In his own speech, Easterling, 70, said that he and his late wife often discussed how “lucky” they were to have found one another. “I mean, [it was] an order of magnitude we thought maybe we should feel guilty [about], because we were so happy,” he said, noting that he wasn’t a fan of her music before they met.

During one of her live performances in Miami, he finally understood her appeal.“People around me were crying, and I got it,” he recalled. “It hit me like a laser beam in the