Patrick Swayze’s widow Lisa Niem says the actor gave her his blessings to remarry

Late actor Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi has opened up about her decision to remarry after Swayze's death and find love again after his death. Lisa appeared on TJ Holmes and Amy Robach's podcast and said that she got approval for marrying again from the source that mattered the most - Swayze himself.

“I actually had a dream, when we were looking at getting married,” she recalled. “It was like he was resurrected. And I was in this courtyard — and when I see him in my dreams, he can never speak, but I can understand what he was saying. And he came up to me and he put his arms around me, and I was like, 'I can't marry Albert now because you're back. Thank god you’re back!'”

She explained that in the dream, Swayze looked at her and “his words that came to me were, ‘I know you love me. And that has nothing to do with it.' It was like he was letting me know that it didn't change how we felt about each other in our relationship with each other. It was like giving a blessing."

Lisa mentioned that the later actor's fans did not feel the same and she was criticised for moving on.

“I got a lot of flak — it’s like, ‘How dare you.’ There are some pretty rabid Patrick fans out there who think I’m evil and just don’t like me because I was married to him,” she said. “I was so tempted so many times to say, ‘Hey girlfriend, stand in my shoes, tell me about it! Go ahead, tell me just because I lost my husband that I don’t love him anymore.’ It’s ridiculous.”

Patrick Swayze died at 57 in 2009, two years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The couple had married in 1975 and were together until he passed.

Three years after his death, Lisa met her now-husband Albert DePrisco, who was himself recovering from a “heartbreaking” divorce.

Lisa said, “If we had met before then it would not have happened but after three years we were about ready.”

On finding love again after Swayze's death Lisa added, "I didn't realise just how lonely I was until much, much later. Because I'm a buck-up kinda girl. I can take it. 'This is not loneliness I'm feeling, I'm dealing with grief.' But it was so wonderful when he came into my life."

Lisa also added that DePrisco was not bothered by her lasting love for Swayze.

When she was asked if she could “forget about Patrick,” Lisa laughed, “Are you kidding me? Patrick’s still with me. I still have a relationship with him. It’s just, he’s physically not here. Every day he’s with me and I feel him there.”