January 12, 2009, 10:53 Society

“Travolta is completely broken because of the death of his son”

John Travolta's son Jett dies

Dmitry Karelin John Travolta, whose son Jett died on January 2, did not go to the Golden Globe Film Awards. The circumstances of the death of Travolta Jr., who suffered from a congenital heart disease, continue to be investigated by police and forensic doctors. They do not rule out that Jett was simply not given vital medications.

Famous Hollywood actor John Travolta refused to participate in the Golden Globe film awards ceremony, citing the fact that he was “simply unable to do anything at all” after the death of his 16-year-old son Jett. The 54-year-old actor officially announced this on Sunday evening, reports the Associated Press . As the agency notes, Travolta was supposed to bring the cartoon “Volt” to the ceremony, in which he voiced the main character.

Despite the fact that the film was a contender for victory in several categories at once, Travolta did not find the strength to attend the ceremony after he buried Jett in Florida on January 8.

About 100 people came to the farewell ceremony for the son of the famous actor, including many Hollywood celebrities. The cemetery gates, as Newser notes, almost broke under the pressure of fans and reporters who sympathized with the actor.

The tragedy occurred on January 2 at the Travolta couple's villa in the Bahamas. According to the Associated Press, Jett was ill since childhood: when he was two years old, doctors diagnosed him with dangerous Kawasaki syndrome, characterized by inflammation of blood vessels with the formation of thrombosis and aneurysms. The teenager, who lived to the age of 16, died immediately after the New Year. He was found by one of the nannies (the Travolta couple have kept them close to their son since early childhood) in the bathroom. Jett lay unconscious in the shower. The back of his head was smashed. First of all, the nurse called Travolta Sr. and his wife, 46-year-old actress Kelly Preston , for help, and she rushed to the phone to call an ambulance.

While the mother applied wet towels to the teenager's broken head, the father tried to save his son by giving him a heart massage.

Unsuccessful attempts to revive the unconscious Jett continued for about an hour until doctors arrived at the villa.

The teenager was urgently taken to intensive care, where he died without regaining consciousness. As it turned out later, Jett had a heart attack in his shower (some publications claim that the teenager had an epileptic attack). He fell, hit his head on the tile floor of the shower and lost consciousness. Forensic experts have not yet come to a common conclusion regarding the causes of the death of the actor’s son. They can’t say yet whether he died of a heart attack or a head injury.

As Travolta admitted to journalists, before the tragedy, his child had already suffered more than one heart attack and was almost constantly under the supervision of nurses, since the threat of a second attack due to a chronic illness existed constantly. The actor could not explain why there was no nurse next to Jett this time. According to the nanny herself, whose name has not been released, the teenager told her that “he could handle it himself and there was no need to follow him into the shower.”

Jett's mother believes that the attack was triggered by various cleaning products and washing powders stored in the house. According to Preston, they “clogged the child’s body, and all the treatment went down the drain.”

According to People Magazine, a special treatment program, excluding the use of medications and generally any chemical mixtures, was specially developed for Jett in the Church of Scientology, of which Travolta and Preston are members.

This statement attracted the attention of the police, who intend to determine whether the cause of death was improper treatment. “It is not very clear whether Jett’s parents gave him the necessary medications. There is a suspicion that the attack could have been provoked by this new method of treatment, invented by Scientologists,” the police say.

One way or another, law enforcement officers will not have to talk to Travolta, who now has only his 8-year-old daughter Ella Blo, soon. As numerous friends of the actor admit to journalists, Travolta “completely broke down due to the death of his son.” Doctors, establishing the exact cause of Jett’s death, recommend “just not touching the spouses yet.” “Now you can only pray for them and that’s all. This is the best that can be done now,” they say.