Was Patrick Swayze an alcoholic? The late star's widow, Lisa Niemi, opens up about his struggles in the 'I Am Patrick Swayze' documentary.
There's no denying that Patrick Swayze was an extremely talented performer. The actor, singer, and dancer kicked the bucket in 2009, but his legacy very a lot lives on thru his work.
Patrick's lifestyles wasn't as breezy and glamorous because it seemed, even though. In the documentary film I Am Patrick Swayze, the star's widow, Lisa Niemi, speaks candidly about his struggles in and out of the highlight.
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Was Patrick Swayze an alcoholic?
Patrick spoke candidly about his ongoing battle with substance addiction. In his posthumously published memoir, Time of My Life, the actor wrote (via Entertainment Weekly) that he drank "copious amounts of alcohol" for almost 10 years after his father's demise.
He sought treatment for alcohol habit in 1993. He relapsed in 2003, and his wife moved out in their shared home till he agreed to get assist again.
Patrick struggled with different non-public "demons" during his lifestyles.
In an older interview clip featured in I Am Patrick Swayze, the actor said, "I have these demons that run around in my insides. I've done everything in the world thinking I'm going to get rid of them... I don't know if [I] ever will."
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Patrick's drinking put a strain on his marriage.
Patrick and Lisa were married from 1975 up till his demise in 2009. As Lisa says in the I Am Patrick Swayze documentary, their marriage was filled with love, nevertheless it wasn't all the time simple.
"He'd be bubbly and fun, and then as soon as he's by himself and alone he would just crash," she said. "We had so many challenging things to deal with, but I still loved him."
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When Patrick was identified with pancreatic cancer, he fought exhausting.
The actor was recognized with Stage Four pancreatic most cancers in 2008. Shortly later on, Patrick instructed ABC's Barbara Walters he was "going through hell," however he endured operating or even took on a lead role in an A&E TV series called The Beast.
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"I've never been one to run from a challenge," he stated in a 2009 interview with ABC. "I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life... not lived in the shadow of cancer, but in the light."
But Patrick made peace with demise prior to he kicked the bucket.
After a 22-month struggle with the illness, Patrick passed away on September 14, 2009. But in his memoir, the Dirty Dancing star wrote that he had a way of peace about demise.
"I began thinking to myself, I’ve had more lifetimes than any 10 people put together, and it’s been an amazing ride," Patrick wrote, according to Reuters. "So this is okay."
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Patrick's widow remarried in 2014.
Lisa married Albert DePrisco in 2014, but she nonetheless carries Patrick in her center. As she advised Entertainment Tonight, "When you lose someone, you never stop loving them and it's — I feel like I have a different relationship with him now," she explains. "It's just, he's not physically present, you know what I mean?"
We can simplest consider. For extra on Patrick's life and legacy, song into I Am Patrick Swayze August 18 at Nine p.m. on the Paramount Network.
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