Patrick Swayze’s grieving wife Lisa Niemi could not hide her joy as she looked at footage of her late husband – saying: “Gosh, doesn’t he look like an angel?”

Niemi revealed on US TV show The View that she was “hanging in there” following the late actor’s tragic death, but admitted that at times her grief has been so intense it has made her feel as though she were having “a full-blown panic attack”.

“It’s like being in a pressure cooker, it builds up so, so much,” she said.

But after being shown a clip of her husband’s last interview, at which she was present, Niemi broke out into a huge smile. “Looking at that clip the first thing I thought was, ‘Gosh, doesn’t he look like an angel?’” she said, proudly.