Tragic Details About The Cast Of Grease

The 1970s were good to John Travolta. "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease" made an international movie star of him. That star began to dip in the 1980s, but his Oscar-nominated turn in "Pulp Fiction" brought him back to the top, as Travolta himself acknowledged on "Inside the Actor's Studio." That was in the '90s, the same decade that brought Travolta his wife, actress Kelly Preston, and his first child, Jett.

Jett experienced chronic health issues. He had Kawasaki disease as a young child, a condition that inflames the arteries, as well as asthma and episodic seizures. His illnesses didn't impair Jett from traveling with his family to film locations and vacation properties, and fatherhood agreed with Travolta. "I can't imagine what life would be like without Jett," he told People in 1994. But in 2009, while vacationing in the Bahamas, Jett had a seizure and hit his head on the bathtub, resulting in his death. He was only 16. Paramedics allegedly took advantage of his death to attempt extortion against Travolta, but after a mistrial, Travolta dropped the charges (per the The Telegraph).

Nine years later, Kelly Preston was diagnosed with breast cancer. According to People, she chose to keep her diagnosis private while she sought treatment. Travolta stood by her and continued to inject spontaneous acts of romance into their marriage. But it was Travolta who announced that Preston had died of her cancer in 2020 via his Instagram.

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