Posts with tag "the time of my life"

Patrick Swayze's Widow Opens Up About His Alcoholism, Her Grief

Posted Apr 9th 2010 at 11:00 AM by Zach Dionne

Almost seven months after Patrick Swayze's death, Lisa Niemi, his widow and co-writer of the marriage-centric autobiography 'The Time of My Life,' spoke to the UK's Times Online, detailing her life with the 'Dirty Dancing' star and her difficult grieving process. The interview is a unique opportunity to hear such an in-depth testimony from Niemi -- though she and Swayze penned the retrospective ...

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Swayze Recounts Lowest Days in Memoir

Posted Sep 30th 2009 at 04:00 PM by PopEater Staff

Patrick Swayze's intense battles with alcohol and depression nearly cost him his marriage earlier this decade, the late actor reveals for the first time in his book 'The Time of My Life,' released Tuesday. His struggle with drink had long been a strain on his wife of 34 years, Lisa Niemi. In the book, he recounts a 10-year period spent drinking "copious amounts of alcohol" and later a 1993 ...