Olivia Newton-Johnhas a lot to look forward to in 2021.
Not only is the belovedGreasestar, 72, planning to release a new duets album, but she’ll also get to watch her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, walk down the aisle with her fiancé of 10 years, James Driskill, in a “small wedding” later this year.
“I’m so lucky to still be doing all these things,” Newton-John tells PEOPLE. “I don’t think I imagined living this long! I feel very blessed.”
After all, the past few years have been difficult ones for Newton-John, who was diagnosed withstage 4 metastatic breast cancerin 2017. But she says she’s “feeling great” — so much so that she and her husband John Easterling launched theirOlivia Newton-John Foundation Fundrecently in order to continue to support research into plant medicine for cancer.
“I’m very lucky to be married to a wonderful man who is a plant medicine man, and he has great knowledge,” she says. “Now he’s growing medicinal cannabis for me, and it just has been wonderful. It helps me in every area.”
Sam Tabone/WireImage
“Out of the blue, she sent me an email saying, ‘I found this song, and I think you need to sing it,'” she explains, adding that she felt an instant tinge of dread. “I thought, ‘Oh gosh, I know it’s not going to be good. How am I going to tell her?'”
But when she listened to the song for the first time, she was on board.
“It moved me to tears,” she says. “It’s a very healing song. I thought, ‘This is very special, and I want to sing it with Chloe.'”
When Newton-John asked Lattanzi to join her on the track, she responded, “Yes — no questions asked.”
“I was flattered and honored,” says Lattanzi. “She could have asked anyone, and she asked me. That meant the world to me. It’s my dream job — I get to spend time with my favorite person.”
Ever since Lattanzi was a little girl, Newton-John says she knew she would follow in her musical footsteps.
Lattanzi has since released her 2016 studio album,No Pain, which included a reworking of her mom’s 1980 hit “Magic” from the filmXanadu.
“As a kid, I wasn’t paying attention to her as a celebrity,” Lattanzi says. “She’s my mom, you know? Like, she takes me to school. I think as I’ve gotten older, that’s when I got to listening to her music. I did a re-imagining of ‘Magic’ because I loved it so much.”
Olivia Newton-John and Daughter Chloe Lattanzi.
Want to get the biggest stories fromPEOPLEevery weekday?Subscribe to our new podcast,PEOPLE Every Day,to get the essential celebrity, entertainment and human interest news stories Monday through Friday. Get a taste of the podcast below.
In addition to the music, Lattanzi has also gotten to borrow some of her mom’s style.
“When I was in my early teens, she had a closet full of costumes from her movies,” she says. “I think one time she came home, and I was trying on the boots fromXanadu, like the big thigh-high cowboy boots. I wore them for Halloween, I believe.”
Adds Newton-John: “I know what you had! You wore theXanaduthe tank top, and you didn’t realize it was special. She put it in the washing machine.”
As she prepares to walk down the aisle, Lattanzi is keeping in mind a sage piece of advice her mom once gave her: “Don’t change for anybody because that’s not love.”
“She picked a good one,” Newton-John says. “So I haven’t had to say much!”
source: people.com
