Jett died in 2009 after he suffered a seizure on a family vacation to Grand Bahama Island. He was 16 years old. "We had a very full life, my son and I, 16 years," Travolta said in a 2015 interview with Entertainment Tonight. "And we did travel the world and he saw every place by the time he, you know, he was that age.
John Travolta remembered his late son, Jett, on what would've been his 30th birthday Thursday. Jett died in 2009 at 16 years old after having a seizure and hitting his head in a bathtub. "My dearest Jetty, I miss you more than words can say.
For John Travolta, being a father is life's greatest "privilege." The actor is dad to three children, whom he welcomed with his late wife, actress Kelly Preston. Preston died in 2020 following a two-year battle with breast cancer.
He had seizures, and when he was very young, he had Kawasaki syndrome,” the actress and wife of John Travolta says on the Nov. 21 episode of the CBS daytime series “The Doctors.” Jett Travolta had a fatal seizure at his famous family's holiday home in January 2009.
John Travolta is mourning the death of Olivia Newton-John, 73, who succumbed to breast cancer on Monday after battling the disease for 30 years. Travolta, 68, has now lost three women to breast cancer, including his wife of 28 years Kelly Preston, with whom he shares three children.
They say the Travoltas were concerned about possible physical damage. And, Jett went back to having around one seizure a week. So Travolta and Preston, after consulting neurosurgeons, stopped administering the drug. No one is suggesting withdrawal of the medicine in any way caused the fatal episode.
After Jett Travolta was diagnosed with Kawasaki syndrome, his parents insisted their son's health improved after they followed a detoxification program based on the Church's teachings. They blamed his illness on the use of household cleaners and fertilizers.
In 1988 while filming The Experts, Travolta met actress Kelly Preston, whom he married in Paris in 1991. They had three children: Jett (1992–2009), Ella Bleu (b. 2000), and Benjamin (b. 2010).
John Travolta, who starred as Danny Zuko in Grease, famously stood out as younger than much of the rest of Grease's principal cast during filming in summer 1977 at age 23.
Police in 2000 took a police report from a 21-year-old masseur who accused John Travolta of groping his buttocks and indecently exposing himself during a deep-body massage at a Palm Springs hotel, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
Does John Travolta have a good relationship with his daughter?
John Travolta is a proud girl dad. Since the death of his late wife Kelly Preston in 2020, the Grease alum has been a devoted single father to his daughter, Ella Bleu, 23. The father-daughter duo have forged a tight-knit bond and can be frequently seen traveling, dancing and celebrating milestone occasions together.
With his actress wife Kelly Preston looking on inside a Bahamas courtroom, Travolta said that he performed CPR on his son after a nanny alerted him the teen had fallen ill at a family vacation home on Grand Bahama island. The chronically ill Jett Travolta, 16, later died from a seizure.
Kawasaki disease is a heart condition that develops suddenly. The condition causes the immune system to attack blood vessels, which become inflamed and swollen. Kawasaki disease tends to affect the coronary arteries, which carry blood to the heart muscle.
Long-term outcomes were generally poorer in KD patients with coronary artery aneurysms, with estimated rates of survival without a major adverse cardiac event ranging from 36% to 96% at 30 years of follow-up. Study Rundown: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an idiopathic acute systemic vasculitis that occurs in young children.
Jett Travolta was the eldest son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who died at the age of 16 in 2009. Born in 1992, Jett had a history of seizures from the age of two. He had been hospitalised at 15 months old with Kawasaki disease and was on the autism spectrum.
I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
Jett Travolta's seizures were caused by lymph node syndrome or Kawaski Disease--an illness that causes inflammation in the walls of small and medium seized arteries throughout the body. It mostly affects children from ages two to five, and is more common in boys than girls.
