Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze's widow, reveals she still communicates with him after his death

Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze's widow, recently revealed in an interview with Us Weekly that she continues to communicate with the actor's spirit, almost 17 years after his death in 2009 from prostate cancer. The American actor was one of Hollywood's most sought-after faces following his role in the film 'Ghost', where his character returns as a spirit to protect and communicate with his beloved."I still feel him with me every day and I hear what he would tell me about certain things. It's wonderful. I talk to him, I feel him. I hear his voice in my head. He gives me advice and I'm absolutely sure he's there whenever I need him. And I still have pictures of Patrick everywhere," the actor's widow told the media outlet.

Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze's widow: "Being without that meaningful relationship was very hard"

In addition to ensuring that he appears whenever she needs him, Niemi has also opened up about how she coped with her husband's cancer and his subsequent death 20 months after diagnosis. "Nothing prepares you for this," she said. "In fact, when Patrick found out, when the doctor walked out of the room, he turned to me and said, 'I'm a dead man,'" she recalls."It was like diving into an instant nightmare. We all knew how it was going to end, in all likelihood, but we hoped that he would be the one to get through it. Patrick and I were married for 34 years and I spent pretty much my entire adult life with him," she says."Being without that meaningful relationship was very hard and extremely lonely. I felt much lonelier than I would have admitted at the time," concludes Lisa Niemi, who finally found love again five years later and married jeweler Albert DePrisco in 2014. However, she says she felt Swayze's spiritual "blessing" to remarry.