Actress Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, dies aged 57
ACTRESS KELLY Preston, the wife of John Travolta, has died aged 57.
Preston, who starred in films such as Mischief, Twins and Jerry Maguire, lost her two-year battle with breast cancer, Travolta said in an Instagram post.
Alongside a photograph of her, he wrote: “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.
“My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Centre, all the medical centres that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side.”
The couple had been married for nearly 30 years and have a daughter, Ella, and son, Benjamin. It is reported they met while filming comedy The Experts in the late 1980s and they got married in Paris a few years later in 1991.
Their son, Jett, died at the age of just 16 after suffering a seizure during a family holiday in the Bahamas in 2009.
Preston’s first major film role was in 1985’s teen comedy Mischief. She later went on to star alongside her actor husband in Battlefield Earth and 2018’s Gotti.
Ella paid tribute to her mother saying she had never “met anyone as courageous, strong, beautiful and loving as you”.
Lost star Daniel Dae Kim reminisced about working alongside Preston as he paid tribute to her.
He tweeted: “I was lucky enough to work with her on one of my very first films,” Actor Spencer Breslin, who starred alongside Preston in the 2003 film The Cat In The Hat, tweeted: “What a lovely woman. Such a sad loss”.