The Boots Girls Remember Patrick Swayze!
Patrick Swayze died after a battle with pancreatic cancer on Monday at the age of 57 and The Boots Girls will always remember him as one of the most pleasurable celebrities we were lucky enough to meet.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement.
The actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008, but he continued to work here in Chicago all last year filming The Beast including on his 56th birthday last summer.
We find it a little ironic that Swayze passed away on a day filled with entertainment news stories mostly about bad behavior from celebrities. Just to go over a few:
*Kanye West’s Outburst at the VMA’s
*Whitney Houston: Bobby Brown Spat on Me!
*Serena Williams’ Meltdown on the Court
*Madonna’s Selfish Tribute to Michael Jackson
*Barack Obama Calls Kanye A “Jackass”
*Kate Gosselin Admits She Had a Meltdown
We bring this up because, unlike the majority of the trash in Hollywood, Swayze was a class act. You never heard anything negative about this humble man and he was always pleasant to everyone he encountered. Although he was going through chemotherapy and battling a deadly disease, whenever we saw him filming and out and about in Chi-Town last summer he was in a good mood and never failed to have a big smile on his face! On top of that, he had an amazing marriage with his longtime love Lisa Niemi who always stood by his side.
Many of Swayze’s peers could learn A LOT about the way he dealt with his fame and carried himself. He will be greatly missed!
September 16th, 2009 at 11:07 am
“Swayze was a class act.”
He really was a very genuine and kindhearted man. And for such a person to have to battle the unforgiving disease of pancreatic cancer, it says a lot of him for how courageous he was in fighting to the end.
My great aunt just died of Pancreatic cancer, and her sister died of it several years ago. It is such a painful thing to watch, knowing that they are suffering and even with the care of a nurse, it is just knowing that their days are numbered that makes it so hard. Prayers go out to his family.