"My dear Jetty, I miss you much more than words can express. I think of you every day. Happy birthday. Love, Dad."
It is the moving message of good wishes that John Travolta wrote for his son Jett, born exactly thirty years ago and sadly died in a dramatic accident while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas, in 2009.
The autistic boy, not even 17 years old at the time, had one of the epileptic seizures he was suffering from. He fell and hit his head against the edge of a bathtub. The impact was fatal.
A horrific mourning for Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, who also passed away in 2020 - after 29 years of marriage - of breast cancer, leaving the actor and two other children, 22-year-old Ella and Benjamin. of 11.
The star of Grease and Pulp Fiction, in 1977, had had another pain: the death of her then partner, actress Diana Hyland, also from breast cancer. He was 22, she 40.
(Unioneonline / D)
