Patrick Swayze had a unique sense of style and charisma.

For decades after his breakthrough in Dirty Dancing, many, if not millions, of us yearned for him.

Undoubtedly, Patrick Swayze will go down in history as the guy all women desired and all men dreamed they could be.

Yet, after a lifetime in the spotlight, the beloved celebrity passed away without seeing his huge goal come true.

On his deathbed, he said three things that have stayed with his wife, Lisa, ever since.

Fans are still in grief for the late Patrick Swayze, who died in 2009 at the age of 57 following a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Swayze was one of the most recognizable on-screen heartthrobs of the 1980s and 1990s, best known as the romantic lead in films such as Dirty Dancing and Ghost.

Yet he was also a romantic in real life, with a love story that rivaled any of his Hollywood films: he was married to his wife Lisa Niemi for 34 years, until his death in 2009.

But once they started going out together, their relationship was like a scene from the movie Dirty Dancing. Patrick knew he couldn’t abandon Lisa. She grew to like him as the years passed. As a result, they quickly formed a relationship.

“The first time Buddy and I danced together was at a school exhibition,” Niemi told ET in the video. “We took the stage… As I stared into his eyes, it was as though everything sprang to life.”

Notwithstanding Swayze’s enormous success in Hollywood, the pair remained blissfully married. He was a sex symbol for women all around the world, and People Magazine called him the “Sexiest Man Alive,” yet he stayed devoted to his wife.

“I knew she was the brightest woman I’d ever met. [Before Lisa,] I had been meeting girls with names like “Mimi” and “Angel”. And I didn’t feel like I deserved her for a long time,” Swayze stated.

They tied the knot on June 12, 1975. Lisa and Patrick’s marriage stood apart in Hollywood, where many marriages end in divorce. It was a storybook relationship, since only Lisa and Patrick didn’t have any children.

Swayze and Niemi had wanted to start a family since the day they married. When Lisa became pregnant, they were overjoyed. When she miscarried, their delight turned to despair.

“That tore his heart out. He wants to be a father more than anything else. ” Johnny had everything a youngster would want: abilities, wisdom, kindness, and love,” Swayze’s longtime friend and bodyguard Frank Whiteley stated.

“I was born to be a father,” Swayze told Closer magazine.

Lisa believed she was becoming too old to have a child as time passed. So Niemi asked her husband if he would consider adoption instead.

“I had been attending an acupuncturist for a long time, and then all of a sudden I was too old,” Lisa said in the August 2019 Paramount Network documentary, I Am Patrick Swayze, and went on to say:

“I maybe could have been more educated about how to go about it, but nevertheless I may have wasted some time. However, as you know, I asked, ‘How would you feel about adopting?’ He became emotional and stated, ‘I want to have children with you.'”

“Patrick very much wanted to be a father because I think he wanted to be as good a father to his kid as his father had been to him,” his manager, Kate Edwards, said in the documentary afterward.

Don Swayze, Patrick’s brother, also shared some devastating insight into the actor’s yearning desire to be a father.

“You could see he would have been a terrific dad, just as an uncle you could see it, you could see what an excellent father he would have been,” Don said. ” … He would never want Lisa to feel guilty about suffering miscarriages, but it broke his heart, so they tried.”

Of course, the fact that Patrick Swayze never became a parent was a big setback for him. Yet, his career flourished, and Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi felt their love for each other to be the most essential thing.

Unfortunately, their narrative would end in bereavement. The pair received tragic news after 30 years of marriage when Swayze was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Despite the dire prognosis, Swayze fought it for a long period, even working on set. His wife was by his side the entire time.

“It’s the worst thing in the world,” Niemi said. “Every day, you battle for that person’s life. I know he fought for his rights every day.”

Yet by September 2009, it was evident that Swayze wasn’t going to live much longer. Dr. George A. Fisher treated Swayze, a lifetime heavy smoker, at Stanford University.

He grew too weak to continue treatment after a while.

“I had to let go, or my heart would have been shattered,” Niemi wrote, adding:

“As it was, my heart was already torn. I felt like I’d failed. The only way to get through it was to remind me that it wasn’t about me. It all came down to our love. “I needed to let go.”

Many believed that Swayze died as a result of his smoking habit. Swayze continued to work and smoke while undergoing cancer treatment.

“I’ve drastically reduced,” Patrick told Barbara Walters. “I was one of those stupid ones that started back in the Marlborough Man days when — you know, it was hip. I work as a cowboy. But let me tell you something. I will speak out strongly against smoking around children. That’s one of the reasons I’ve never smoked in front of kids.”

Nevertheless, his doctor stated that this was not the case. However, he considered it “quite an accomplishment” that Swayze lasted as long as two years with the disease.

“I think there’s minimal further damage in it at the stage where one is already diagnosed with cancer,” Dr. Fisher added. “And if it appears to offer him some comfort or part of his identity, I definitely have no issues with that.”

Patrick gave his mother a house and sent her a monthly stipend before his death, which his wife Lisa continued to do. He also left his wife a $40 million inheritance.

Patrick Swayze lives on via his legendary cinematic performances… and in the hearts of his loved ones who miss him every day, many years after his death.

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