John Travolta Honors Late Son Jett on His Birthday With Touching Tribute: ‘I Miss You’
usmagazine.comThirteen years after John Travolta’s son Jett’s death, the actor honored his late child on what would have been his 30th birthday.“My dearest Jetty, I miss you more than words can say,” the Grease star, 68, captioned a throwback black-and-white Instagram photo on Wednesday, April 13. “I think about you every day.
Happy Birthday. Love, your Dad.”Jamie Lee Curtis commented on the sweet social media upload, “Oh John. My hand in yours.
X J.”The New Jersey native and his late wife, Kelly Preston, welcomed Jett in April 1992, followed by daughter Ella, now 22, and Benjamin, now 11, in April 2000 and November 2010, respectively.
Jett died in January 2009 while on vacation with his family in the Bahamas.In January 2019, Travolta exclusively told Us Weekly that his eldest child’s passing was “the worst thing that’s ever happened in [his] life,” adding, “The truth is, I didn’t know if I was going to make it.”The singer credited Scientology with his recovery at the time, telling Us, “The church never left our sides for two years.
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