John Travolta has opened up about the shattering grief he experienced after the death of his teenage son saying it was “worst thing that’s ever happened in my life.”
In an interview with with BBC interviewer Barry Norman at London’s Theatre Royal, the Hollywood legend said “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.”
His firstborn son Jett, who lived with autism and had a history of seizures, died in 2009 at the age of 16. He suffered a seizure struck his head against a bath during a family holiday in the Bahamas.
Travolta said that following the tragedy, he “didn’t want to wake up” and that “it took a lot to get me better.”
He says that he has the Church of Scientology to thank for getting through it.
“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.”
Travolta has been a member of the controversial religion since the 1970s.
He and his wife of 23 years Kelly Preston are parents to two other children – daughter Ella Bleu, 13, and son Benjamin, 3.
