Patrick Swayze‘s widow, Lisa Niemi, is engaged, reports People.
After being married to Swayze for 34 years and losing him to pancreatic cancer in September, 2009, Niemi has found love again with jeweler Albert DePrisco.
“Albert proposed to Lisa on Christmas Eve,” her rep confirmed.
Niemi and DePrisco, 58, have been dating for a year and a half after reportedly meeting through mutual acquaintances at a birthday party for her.
Swayze danced into Niemi’s heart when they were both teenagers practicing at her mother’s dance studio in Texas. They fell in love, got married in 1975, and he battled cancer for nearly two years before passing away in 2009.
Niemi’s form of release and recovery from losing Swayze was through her best-selling book, “Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss and Moving Forward.”
Though it was heartbreaking for the 57-year-old actress and dancer to lose her husband to cancer, she remained hopeful about finding love again one day.
“I would love companionship love. Absolutely. I hope I’m not one of these women who never want to have another relationship,” she told People the year after Swayze’s death. “But who knows, that’s another bridge I’ll cross when I come to it. I may get there and go, I don’t know. But I like to think that I can.”
