Didi Conn was sent a sweet gift by her 'Grease' co-star Dame Olivia Newton-John just weeks before her death. The 71-year-old actress - who played Frenchy in the 1978 movie-musical - has revealed the pair kept in touch over the years and they had a poignant chat when Olivia was being treated for a broken leg in hospital shortly before she lost her battle with cancer.
Didi explained the kindly star even sent her an orchid from her hospital bed after hearing she also hadn't been well, telling New York Post column PageSix: "We spoke like once a month or so.
She was in the hospital at the time [we last spoke]. She had broken a leg and didn’t even notice. Like, her bones were just cracking . . . "She [Olivia] said: ‘What?!
Why didn’t you tell me [you had been ill]?' And the next day, I got this beautiful orchid plant. " However, Didi saw a bad omen when one of the orchid's flowers dropped three days before her friend's death last August at the age of 73.
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