John Travolta Remembers Olivia Newton-John on Her 74th Birthday, Her 1st After Passing

John Travolta remembered Olivia Newton-John successful a touching tribute connected what would person been her 74th day connected Monday. The 68-year-old Grease alum shared a inactive (seen here) connected the nighttime of Sept. 26 of him and Olivia singing “You’re the One That I Want” astatine the extremity of the iconic movie from 1978. Under the photo, helium sweetly wrote, “Happy day my Olivia.” This is the archetypal day of Olivia’s that has passed since she died successful August aft a years-long conflict with bosom cancer.

John Travolta shared a representation of him and Olivia Newton-John successful this schoolhouse carnival country from ‘Grease’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

John, who played Danny Zuko, and Olivia, who played Sandy Olsson successful the film,had a peculiar enslaved aft creating specified a beloved movie and stayed adjacent friends until the extremity of Olivia’s life. “Well, we’ll ever beryllium friends,” Olivia told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY successful Feb. 2021 portion promoting her caller opus “Window successful the Wall.” She added, “[John and I] been done a huge, unthinkable acquisition unneurotic and we attraction astir each different and we’ll ever beryllium friends.”

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John had a decades-spanning narration (Photo: Jim Smeal/BEI/Shutterstock)

She antecedently shared the aforesaid sentiment successful a 2018 interview. “We did thing life-changing, making that film,” the Australian histrion told PEOPLE arsenic she celebrated the film’s 40th anniversary. “[At the premiere] you got the feeling from the vigor that thing was happening. It was a immense response. I consciousness grateful to beryllium a portion of that and to person worked with him. We’ve stayed friends ever since.”

Unsurprisingly, John was conscionable 1 of respective friends and household members who paid tribute to Olivia connected her birthday. Her histrion daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, 36, shared a video from a meal party connected Monday that included respective members of her family. “With my beauteous godmother celebrating my beauteous mother’s birthday,” Chloe said astatine the apical of the video arsenic she filmed herself sitting adjacent to her godmother, Nancy Chuda. Chloe’s husband, James Driscoll, smiled astatine the camera and said, “Happy day mama, I emotion you.” Olivia’s husband, John Easterling, was besides seen successful precocious spirits successful the video.

John, 70, besides shared a birthday tribute of his own, which was posted to Olivia’s authoritative Instagram account. He posted a photograph of him and Olivia successful The Bahamas to observe the archetypal day of hers they ever celebrated unneurotic and wrote astir the “wonderful” trip, including the atrocious upwind they encountered. “As rapidly arsenic the tempest started, the winds died down, the rainfall stopped, the prima poked done and the seas turned backmost to that beauteous turquoise. As the mist cleared you could spot the Hopetown Lighthouse connected Elbow Cay and we were perfectly connected course,” helium recalled.

“Olivia looked astatine maine similar I was a superhero and I knew it was mostly unsighted religion and dumb luck,” helium continued. “As the dolphins led america implicit the gorgeous aqua water, nether the rainbow towards the lighthouse, we some recognized the fingerprints of the supernatural were each implicit this – and that’s the mode we lived our life. Every time with Olivia determination was a hint of magic and each time with Olivia was a spot of the supernatural.”