John Travolta marks New Year's by posting sweet snap with his kids Ella, 24, and Benjamin, 14
- Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected]
John Travolta marked New Year's by posting a sweet family snap accompanied by his children Ella, 24, and Benjamin, 14.
They were pictured in an undisclosed winter setting, all bundled up in warm clothing while posing in the snow in front of the woods.
The 70-year-old Grease icon wrapped an affectionate arm around his youngest child, who was standing between him and Ella.
'Happy new year from the Travolta family,' John wrote for his nearly five and a half million followers on the social media platform.
He was dressed in a stylish midnight blue coat over a black turtleneck, a couple of chain necklaces and a chic monochrome scarf.
Wednesday marked the family's fourth New Year's Day since John's late wife Kelly Preston - the mother of all his children - succumbed to cancer at the age of just 57.
John Travolta marked New Year's by posting a sweet family snap accompanied by his children Ella, 24, and Benjamin, 14
John and Kelly were married since 1991 and shared three children, Ella and Benjamin as well as Jett, who died tragically aged 16 in 2009.
Jett, who had a history of seizures, suffered one during a family vacation to the Bahamas and hit his head on the bathtub on January 2, 2009, resulting in his death.
This April, John marked what would have been Jett's 32nd birthday on Instagram, writing: 'Happy birthday my Jetty - not a day goes by where you’re not with me!'
One month later on Mother's Day, he posted a picture of Kelly with Ella and Benjamin, captioned: 'Happy Mother’s Day Kelly. We love you we miss you.'
The family was struck by bereavement yet again when Kelly died in July 2020, two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
John heartbrokenly announced her death and thanked her medical team, writing: 'My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped.'
The post ignited rumors that John and Kelly had drifted away from Scientology, whose founder L. Ron Hubbard was against chemotherapy and radiation.
However the Church Of Scientology's website does urge believers to 'seek conventional medical treatment for illnesses and injuries.'
This Mother's Day, John touchingly posted a picture of Ella and Benjamin with their late mother Kelly Preston, who succumbed to cancer in 2020 at the age of 57
John spoke candidly about his grieving process in the year following Kelly's death, in a 2021 profile interview he gave to Esquire Spain.
'I learned that crying and mourning over someone is something personal. Mourning is individual and experiencing your own journey is what can lead to healing,' he said.
'The most important thing you can do to help another when they are in mourning is allow them to live it and not complicate it with yours,' John observed.
'Let's say you lose someone and at the funeral you are very sad, then another person approaches you who is feeling more sadder and doesn't leave enough space for you to mourn. It would be like two boats plummeting to the bottom. That is my experience,' the Pulp Fiction star explained.
'I felt saturated with everyone's sadness that I didn't know what to do. The first thing you should do when you experience grief is to go to a place where you can mourn, without any interference,' he added.
