John Travolta celebrated what would’ve been his late son Jett’s thirty third birthday with an emotional Instagram publish on Sunday.
The “Grease” star shared a throwback photograph of himself holding his younger son, who died in 2009.
“Happy birthday Jett — I miss you so much!” Travolta wrote, including, “Love you forever!”
Jett Travolta was 16 years previous when he died after having a seizure whereas on trip along with his household within the Bahamas. {The teenager}, who was autistic, reportedly had an extended historical past of seizures.
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Travolta has beforehand referred to as his son’s loss of life “the worst thing that’s ever happened in my life” and mentioned he “didn’t want to wake up” after Jett’s passing.
“The truth is, I didn’t know if I was going to make it,” the actor mentioned throughout an onstage interview on the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London, by way of BBC. “Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better.”
John Travolta and his spouse, actor Kelly Preston, welcomed Jett in 1992. The 2 additionally share a daughter, Ella Travolta, who was born in 2000.
After Jett’s loss of life, Travolta and Preston had one other son, named Benjamin, in 2010.
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Preston later died in 2020 after privately battling breast most cancers for 2 years. She was 57 years previous.
On the time of her loss of life, Travolta mentioned that his spouse “fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.”
“Kelly’s love and life will always be remembered,” he wrote in an emotional message.
