Olivia Newton-John is still hoping her missing boyfriend returns — more than three months after he disappeared.
"I love him very much and this is very hard to go through," Newton-John said Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America." "He has a young son, so we still hold out hope that he will come back."
Newton-John's longtime boyfriend, 48-year-old Patrick Kim McDermott, failed to return from a June 30 overnight fishing trip off the California coast.
The Coast Guard has been investigating his disappearance as a missing-person case, including the possibility that McDermott had staged his disappearance.
McDermott had filed for bankruptcy in 2000 and was embroiled in a legal dispute in April over late child-support payments to his ex-wife, actress Yvette Nipar. The couple have a 13-year-old son.