PATRICK SWAYZE'S WIDOW SAYS SHE'LL SEE HIM AGAIN

Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi has spoke publicly about his death six weeks ago for the first time.
Niemi, who was married to the Dirty Dancing and Ghost star for 34 years, talked about her heartbreak that he lost his courageous battle against pancreatic cancer, aged 57.
“When the grief takes you, it's like your body's not your own,” she a discussion called Grief, Healing and Resilience at a women's conference hosted by California first lady Maria Shriver.
Calling the loss “like an animal all of its own” and that her sorrow is “on a cellular level,” she said: “I'm just going with the flow. I know I have to go through it.”
But she added: “I am so grateful for what I had and my connection to him, and part of me believes that I will see him again. And I'm just going to have to go on until then.”
Niemi, 55, also said that after he was diagnosed in spring of 2008 she stayed by his side and told him several times a day: “I love you, I love you.”
She went on: “My regret is that I didn't tell him that I loved him enough over that entire 34 years.”
Since his death she has relied on close friends to help her through the darkest moments.
“I have a few girlfriends that are just amazing,” she said. “They have made themselves available to me 24/7. They say, 'We don't care if it's two in the morning, call me.'
“I was in the middle of a full-blown panic attack one evening and I picked up the phone and called on, which is really hard for me to do because I'm used to being so self sufficient and taking care of myself.
“But the very act of picking the phone up to call someone helped to calm me.”
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, who lost her 16-year-old son in a car crash, and actress Susan St James, whose 14-year-old son was killed in a plane crash, joined her on stage.
Actress Kelly Preston initially agreed to join the discussion to talk about the January death of her son with John Travolta, Jett, 16.
Shriver said: “Kelly called to say it was just too painful for her to talk about Jett. She said the grief was still too debilitating for her. And I totally understood.”
Shriver, who is married to actor and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, has faced her own tragedies this summer, with the death of her mother, Eunice Shriver and her uncle, Senator Edward Kennedy.
She told the crowd of 14,000 in San Diego: “Grief cracks your heart into little pieces and that hurts, big time, big time. It's hard to concentrate, it's hard to see, it's hard to feel, it's hard even to breathe.”