John overwhelmed his son who disappeared on his birthday: “I will love you forever”

We are accustomed to rivers of words that overlap their dizzying rhythm during everyone’s days. In the moments that matter, however, almost all are superfluous, as he reminded us John Travoltathat for pay homage to his son who passed away in 2009, on his birthday It used very few. «Happy birthday Jett, I miss you very much. I will love you forever ». A simple message that arrives straight to the heart and testifies to all the pain of a parent who found himself living the most heartbreaking pain that can probably be imagined.

In addition to the words they can so much the images and that chosen by the past for this important anniversary is one photos that immortalize a happy moment: a father who smiles holding his son who plays with his ears.

Jett, who would have turned 33 on April 13, died tragically at 16, while on vacation with the family in the Bahamas. During the stay he was caught by one epileptic crisis and slammed his head against the bathtub of the holiday home. A devastating event, defined by the actor on several occasions “the worst thing that has ever happened to me in life”, which led him to live dark yearsfrom which he had admitted that he was not sure he could re -emerge. “Life no longer interested me, so it took a lot to heal,” he said in an interview, remembering the very close link with all his three children, and how the arrival of the firstborn Jett had distorted him existence.

“I can’t imagine what life would be like without him,” he said in 1994, also revealing some small details of the moment of birth. «After I was born I kept him in his arms for hours while Kelly slept. When the nurse came to get it to do various exams, I told them: ‘No, you can’t see it today. You will have to do it another day ‘I went crazy a little ».

After some time since the boy’s death in the end the light was gradually returned to peeking into the life of the actor of Grease, Saturday night fever, pulp Fiction and other memorable films. In 2020, however, another very strong mourning: the Disappearance of his wife Kelly Prestonwhich took place at 57 years due to breast cancer. The woman was the mother of Jett and the other two overwhelmed children: Ella Bleu of 25 years old and Benjamin of 14.

The latter was born on November 23, 2010, about a year and a half from the death of his older brother Jett, and as the parents had admitted, describing him as a small miracle, he had “given life and purpose to the house”. Speaking of the disappearance of firstbornin the transmission The DoctorJohn Travolta’s wife, also an actress, had revealed that she was autistic and that as a child he suffered from the Kawasaki syndrome. Health conditions held up to that moment hidden and which testify to the extreme reserve of the family, who has never even announced the Preston disease, until the day of his death.