The tragedy that marked their lives
He proposed to her in Switzerland and a year later, on September 5, 1991, the couple said ‘yes, I do’ in an intimate ceremony for the rite of Scientology in the Hotel Crillon in Paris (Then they endorsed their wedding in Daytona Beach, Florida, to have legal validity) and a few months later they welcomed their first child, Jett, a name that the actor chose for his love of aviation (he is a pilot and owns five planes). The young man, who was born with kawasaki syndrome -An inflammation of the blood vessels, died at just 16 years of age after suffering an attack during a vacation in The Bahamas. “My family and I work very hard every day to get over it and heal the wound. I think we both tried to deal with the pain as best we could. It was a moment when it was very difficult to look at each other, because if one was wrong, the other would fall. But the strength of our relationship helped us ”, admitted Travolta a few months after the death of his first-born.
But Kelly and John had to overcome and fight for the happiness of their daughter She, who was nine years old at the time. “After three years of receiving support from my Church, the people, my family and the fans, I decided that I could go back to work. Because when my son died I considered retiring,” confessed the actor on the BBC. On November 23, 2010, Preston gave birth to the couple’s third child, Benjamin Hutton, who returned the smile to the family after the tragic loss of Jett.
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