Tragic Details About John Travolta

In 2009, John Travolta tragically lost his 16-year-old son during a family vacation in the Bahamas. According to People, the teen died after suffering from a seizure and hitting his head in a bathtub at their vacation home in Old Bahama Bay Hotel. He was discovered unconscious by a caretaker and pronounced dead at the hospital.

Jett — who was hospitalized with Kawasaki Disease as a young child — had a history of seizures, which Travolta elaborated on in the testimony for his 2009 extortion case. According to CBS News, he said the child would have one "every five to ten days," and they would last "from 45 seconds to minutes."

Following Jett's death, Travolta sunk into a deep depression. In an on-stage interview with the BBC, the Saturday Night Fever star admitted it was "the worst thing" that ever happened to him, and he "didn't know if [he] was going to make it" through. "Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better," he said. He also claimed that he "didn't want to wake up," but ultimately leaned on the Church of Scientology to help him recover. "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," he told the BBC.

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