Olivia Newton-John views having cancer as a "gift"

She said: "I don’t think of myself as sick with cancer. I choose not to see it as a fight either because I don’t like war. I don’t like fighting wherever it is – whether it’s outside or an actual war inside my body.

" I choose not to see it that way. I want to get my body healthy and back in balance. Part of that is your mental attitude to it. If you think: ‘Poor me,’ or ‘I’m sick,’ then you’re going to be sick...

“I don’t know what I would be without it now. I see it as my life’s journey. It gave me purpose and intention and taught me a lot about compassion.

“It has been a gift. I don’t wish it on anyone else. But for me, it’s been important in my life.”

The 'Physical' hitmaker believes every day she is still alive is a "blessing" and she's grateful for however long she has left.

She told The Guardian newspaper: "Three times lucky, right? I’m going to look at it like that. Listen, I think every day is a blessing. You never know when your time is over; we all have a finite amount of time on this planet, and we just need to be grateful for that.”

Olivia - who is married to John Easterling and has daughter Chloe from her first marriage to Matt Lattanzi - was first diagnosed with the disease in 1992 and again in 2013, so when it returned again in 2017, she wasn't surprised.

She said: “It’s been a part of my life for so long. I felt something was wrong. It’s concerning when it comes back, but I thought: ‘I’ll get through it again.’”

The 'Grease' star is an advocate of medical cannabis for pain relief, but she was "nervous" before she first started using it.

She admitted: “I was nervous of it in the beginning. But I could see the benefits once I started using it. It helps with anxiety, it helps with sleep, it helps with pain.”