Patrick Swayze’s wife and brother have given an emotional US TV interview about the late actor.
Lisa Niemi and Don Swayze told Larry King Live about the day that the family found out about his illness.
Lisa said: “He was having some indigestion problems and then noticed he had some jaundice. And we immediately got him in. [...]

The late Patrick Swayze has been honoured by a group of dancers.
Career Transition for Dancers, which helps dancers who have been injured or are seeking a new direction with age, has bestowed its annual award on actor Swayze at a gala event in New York City.
Swayze’s wife and high school sweetheart Lisa Niemi appeared to [...]

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 [...]

Patrick Swayze’s widow has told Oprah Winfrey of her heartbreak at losing the Ghost star to cancer.
Lisa Niemi told the talk show queen that she struggled to leave 57-year-old Swayze alone during his final days back in September.
“I was afraid to leave his side,” Niemi told Oprah.
“His heart is so strong. But it was only [...]

Patrick Swayze’s widow is set to speak for the first time since the actor’s tragic death - by publicly sharing her grief at a women’s conference later this month.
Lisa Niemi, 53, will take part in a round-table discussion on Grief, Healing and Resilience at The Women’s Conference 2009 in Long Beach, California, which gathers women [...]

Mourners gathered in their hundreds to pay their last respects to Patrick Swayze at a private service held in Culver City, California.
The actor, who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57, was honoured in a service that combined his love of dancing and horses.
The private memorial was held at the Los Angeles Sony [...]

Patrick Swayze has revealed in his memoirs that he regretted never becoming a dad.
The Dirty Dancing star and wife Lisa Niemi had longed for a baby, but were left devastated when Niemi suffered a miscarriage three months into her pregnancy.
In his memoirs, The Time Of My Life, the actor wrote: “I couldn’t wait to become [...]

Patrick Swayze’s memoirs, published this month, reveal that he hated the Dirty Dancing script when he first read it.
Swayze died on 14 September in LA, after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer.
His memoirs, called The Time Of My Life, reveal that he wasn’t keen on the script of the 1987 movie that shot him [...]

Patrick Swayze’s memoirs, written with his wife Lisa Niemi, uncover the rocky journey with a killer cancer that took his life just 18 months after he was diagnosed.
In extracts from The Time Of My Life published in the Sunday Daily Mail, Swayze writes:
“The only thing I’d ever heard about pancreatic cancer was that it’s incurable [...]

Patrick Swayze’s life-long romance with his wife Lisa Niemi began when he pinched her bum, when she was 14, the late actor reveals in his upcoming memoir.
And in a touching moment last year, when the couple renewed their wedding vows, he told her: “I’m still not complete until I look in your eyes. You [...]