Patrick Swayze’s widow: I got ‘a lot of flak’ for marrying after his death: ‘How dare you’

No one puts infant in a corner. 

Patrick Swayze’s widow, actress-dancer Lisa Niemi Swayze, 67, appeared on the April 8 episode of the “Amy and T.J.” podcast to reflect on her marriage with the late actor, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2009 at age 57. 

The few fulfilled when Lisa was 15 and Patrick was 19, at his mother’s ballet school in Houston, Texas. They had been married from 1975 until his death. 

Lisa, who married her 2nd husband, Albert DePrisco, in 2014, claimed that some enthusiasts reacted in a hostile way.

“I received a lot of flak — it’s like, ‘How dare you.’ There are some very rabid Patrick enthusiasts out there who feel I’m evil, just really don’t like me for the reason that I was married to him,” she shared on the podcast.

“So there was a large amount of flak that came on that, a large amount of criticism, and you just master to offer with it and transfer on. But it’s like — I was so tempted so numerous times to say, ‘Hey girlfriend, stand in my shoes, explain to me about it. Go in advance — explain to me just since I missing my spouse that I really don’t love him any more.’ “

“How could you say that?” she extra. “Ridiculous.” 

Lisa satisfied the “Dirty Dancing” star when they ended up teenagers. 

She mirrored, “My first dance teacher was his mom, that’s how we fulfilled. He was my 1st dance associate. We looked in each individual others’ eyes and it was like . . . bang. This incredible magic happened. . . We pretty a lot stayed dance associates for the future 34 several years.”

She claimed that their connection was not all sunshine and roses at the beginning.

“It was truly attention-grabbing because we experienced a little contentious begin . . . He had form of a track record as a Casanova . . . We were being meant to keep absent from each other,” she disclosed.

“I realized right before we ended up carried out [with the dance] that a thing was likely to materialize involving us that was significant. I did not know it would culminate in a quite long-term marriage, I was only like 16 at the time,” she extra. 

Lisa shared that the “Ghost” and “Road House” actor was not a “womanizer,” regardless of having a “significant amount of money of girlfriends” before her. She called him “very gentlemanly.” 

“He was so all-American handsome, proficient at every thing, it just type of created you sick,” she claimed, laughing. 

“And a large amount of individuals did not like him due to the fact of that. He was as well best.” 

The pair danced in private, but Lisa disclosed, “He would under no circumstances dance with me out in general public, since everyone would be sitting close to going, ‘What’s he going to do next?’ ”

Tragically, immediately after he got his cancer prognosis in July 2008, she shared that, “He turned to me and claimed, ‘I’m a useless person.’ I didn’t know a great deal about pancreatic most cancers, but he did, and from what he understood, whenever you listened to anyone experienced had pancreatic cancer it was like, ‘Well, he’s out of below.’ Certain enough, the health care provider explained you can go forward and address it and be as aggressive as you want, but do imagine about obtaining your affairs in order sooner instead than later. Which is a difficult issue to listen to,” she instructed the “Amy and T.J.” podcast.

Lisa stated soon after that, they tried to address his most cancers and remain beneficial. 

“Your lifetime turns on a dime . . . Every little thing shifted,” she claimed. 

“We often named ourselves optimistic realists, for the reason that we understood in all likelihood how this was gonna change out, but we held out that he would be the a person to make it by it, since miracles do come about. We saved so good about everything, but I notify you what, it was like residing in a full nightmare 24/7.”

Lisa claimed that she satisfied her present partner, who is divorced from his to start with wife, “about a few years” soon after Patrick’s loss of life. 

“If we had achieved ahead of then, it wouldn’t have happened, but just after a few many years, we had been about all set,” she reported. “We were released by longtime buddies that we had equally acknowledged for 30 a long time who vouched for the other man or woman.”

She included,  “Patrick is nonetheless with me. I nonetheless have a partnership with him he’s bodily not right here, [but] each individual day he’s with me, and I really feel him there.

“What was genuinely uncommon was . . . I seriously fell in enjoy with Albert [DePrisco], and it did not influence — it was attention-grabbing to see how it didn’t have an impact on my love for Patrick one little bit.”