Patrick Swayze's wife has been forced to deny extraordinary claims she repeatedly beat her husband throughout their marriage.
The late actor was married to his former dance partner Lisa Niemi for 34 years before losing his battle with pancreatic cancer in September 2009. The Dirty Dancing star was 57 when he died.
US gossip website RadarOnline is reporting that Swayze was the victim of domestic violence, saying Niemi was "abusive" towards her husband, even when he was dying of cancer.
"She [Niemi] would beat on him and he would beat on the walls and furniture. They fought and I covered up a lot of that - they destroyed hotel rooms, cars, their house .... It was abusive," an unnamed longtime friend of the couple is quoted in the article.
