John Travolta remembered his late son Jett Travolta on what would’ve been his 33rd birthday on Sunday.
The 71-year-old movie star, John Travolta who boasts 15.2M social media followers – captioned a rare father-son snap: ‘Happy birthday Jett – I miss you so much! Love you forever!’
Last year, John gushed that ‘not a day goes by where you’re not with me.’
John Travolta and his late wife Kelly Preston’s eldest child tragically died in 2009, at age 16, during a family getaway to the Bahamas.
Jett – who had autism, asthma, and Kawasaki Syndrome – was said to have suffered a seizure and hit his head in a bathtub inside the Old Bahama Bay Hotel.
‘[It was] the worst thing that’s ever happened in my life,’ the two-time Oscar nominee recalled to Barry Norman in 2014.
‘The truth is, I didn’t know if I was going to make it. Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better…
‘I will forever be grateful to Scientology for supporting me for two years solid, I mean Monday through Sunday. They didn’t take a day off, working through different angles of the techniques to get through grief and loss, and to make me feel that finally I could get through a day.’
Preston reportedly blamed household cleaners, fertilizers, and pesticides as the cause of Jett’s autism spectrum disorder and lobbied for better labeling on chemicals.
The Jerry Maguire actress tragically passed away herself, at age 57, in 2020 following a secret two-year battle with breast cancer.
During their 29-year marriage, Kelly also welcomed their 25-year-old daughter Ella Bleu and 14-year-old son Benjamin.
John will soon fly to Canada to begin filming his role as real-life Chicago mobster Johnny Roselli in Roland Joffé’s upcoming thriller about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy – according to Deadline.
November 1963 will also feature Robert Carlyle, Mandy Patinkin, and Dermot Mulroney.
John Travolta shot his last three films with disgraced director Randall Emmett – Cash Out, Cash Out: High Rollers, and the upcoming Cash Out 3 as the professional thief Mason Goddard.
In 2022, the 54-year-old filmmaker – who fathered a child with Vanderpump Rules alum Lala Kent – was hit with a myriad of disturbing allegations from abusing past assistants to offering roles in exchange for sex, which he denied.
The Emmy-winning producer is best known for his roles in Carrie (1976), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), Blow Out (1981), Look Who’s Talking (1989), Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Face/Off (1997), and Hairspray (2007).