John Travolta Says Scientology Helped Him Cope With Son’s Death
JOHN Travolta says Scientology has helped him and his wife Kelly Preston cope with the January death of their 16-year-old son, Jett.
“We’ve been working very hard every day as a family to heal,” Travolta said during a round-table interview with the cast of his latest film, Old Dogs, which also stars Preston and their daughter, Ella, 9. “We have our own way of doing it, and it has been helping.”
The actor, 55, said he has been overwhelmed by all the support.
“You need your friends a lot in times like that,” he said.
“The outpouring of love from, really, worldwide has been extraordinary. It’s been our friends, our family, our church. We partake in spiritual counseling pretty much daily,” Preston added.
“It’s a tricky thing. Sometimes, something that’s right for the moment is not right the next day. Being with people who are important to you, being with people that you love, I think that’s what has primarily helped us the most. Sometimes, being alone, too.”
It has previously been reported that Travolta had become disenchanted with the controversial religion.
“There have been strong rumors coming out of Scientology that John Travolta is disappointed that the religion was not able to help his son more,’ Rick Ross, an American author and lecturer on Scientology, told Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper earlier this year. “It’s led him to question his faith.
“I think it would be very difficult for John Travolta at this stage, given his history with the religion, to extricate himself from the Church of Scientology.
“It would be a huge move on his part because Scientology keeps files on its celebrity members containing embarrassing personal information about them.
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