Olivia Newton John’s lost lover, Patrick McDermott, has reached out to her four years after disappearing, pleading for searchers to stop looking for him.
Patrick has been missing since a fishing trip in June, 2005, and investigators have long believed the bankrupt staged his own death to make a life insurance claim and avoid paying child maintenance for a teenage son.
Now he has been found alive and well in a Mexican fishing village, and in a world exclusive, Woman’s Day reveals:
The reason he ran away and broke Olivia’s heart.
His message to the singer.
How US Coast Guard officers now believe he planned his disappearance for at least six months.
To find out why Patrick ran away, buy this week’s issue with Olivia on the cover.
Patrick’s disappearance after a nine year love affair was one of the low points in Olivia’s life, coming as she was nursing her beloved daughter Chloe through anorexia.
Woman’s Day reveals new, intimate details of the last fraught moments shared by the couple as their romance ended – just days before he was last seen.
Olivia last year found new peace when she wed herb tycoon John Easterling, but the hunt for Patrick continued.
An investigation by Woman’s Day reveals the conclusive proof Patrick is alive, including a fax sent on his behalf to investigator Philip Klein.
Klein tells Womans Day that as well as the fax, he has had three phone calls from Patrick’s representatives since February.
And after demanding further proof, Klein has now received a photograph of his 52-year-old quarry, with hair dyed black in a bid to change his appearance.
