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Lisa Niemi: Seeing Patrick Swayze’s Wax Figure Unveiled At Madame Tussauds Is ‘Bittersweet’

Lisa Niemi is happy her late husband, Patrick Swayze, has been immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds Hollywood, two years after his death at the age of 57.

Lisa Niemi & Donny Swayze On Patrick Swayze’s Final Days

It’s been eight months since Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. This time has not been easy for Patrick’s wife, Lisa Niemi (after 34-years of marriage, she prefers to be known as his wife, not his widow).

Lisa recently sat down with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush for an exclusive interview, where topic No. 1 was children.

Lisa Niemi Opens Up On Patrick Swayze’s Last Days On ‘Oprah’

Lisa Niemi spoke out on Friday in her first television interview since the death of her husband, Patrick Swayze, in an appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”

“Every moment of every breath of every day in the last 22 months before he died, every single one of those was special,” Lisa, who was married to the actor for 38 years before his passing from pancreatic cancer in September, told Oprah.

Lisa Niemi Opens Up About Her Grief Over Losing Patrick Swayze

Lisa Niemi called the grief that came with the loss of her husband, Patrick Swazye, “an animal all of its own.”

At the “Grief, Healing and Resilience” panel at Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference in Long Beach, Calif., on Tuesday afternoon, Lisa explained that despite knowing she would most likely eventually lose her husband to cancer, his actual death was a tremendous emotional battle.

First Look: Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi’s ‘The Time Of My Life’

Despite Patrick Swayze’s death on Monday at the age of 57 to pancreatic cancer, the superstar’s book, written with his beloved wife, will still be released later this month.

And Access Hollywood has your first look at the book’s cover, which features Patrick and his beloved wife, Lisa Niemi, high school sweethearts, who married in 1975.