KIRSTIE, 71, DIED CARRYING TORCH FOR TRAVOLTA!
Always regretted letting Scientology hunk slip away
DESPITE two marriages, Cheers legend Kirstie Alley was still carrying a torch for John Travolta — the man she called the love of her life — when she suddenly died of colon cancer earlier this month!
The 71-year-old Scientology sexpot shockingly passed away Dec. 5 from the vicious disease that was detected too late to save her life.
In her final hours, insiders say she talked about her love for Travolta, which ignited when they costarred in the hit 1989 comedy Look Who’s Talking.
“There was such a spark between them — Kirstie loved John with all her heart and she knew John loved her, too,” a friend reveals.
At the time, the brunette beauty was married to her second hubby, Hardy Boys star Parker Stevenson, but “fell in love with John, and never stopped regretting she didn’t throw caution to the wind and run away with him,” dishes the friend.
“Kirstie went to her grave still deeply in love with John.”
Alley went on to have kids William, 30, and Lillie, 28, before she and Stevenson divorced in 1997.
Before her death, Kirstie confessed she stopped short of going to bed with fellow Church of Scientology member Travolta, now 68, saying, “It was the hardest decision I ever made because I was madly in love with him. He was the greatest love of my life.”
But she continued to flirt with the Grease hunk even after he married actress Kelly Preston in 1991.
At one point, “Jealous Kelly told her to back off, which Kirstie did,” a friend says.
In 2020, Alley left L.A. to settle in Clearwater, Fla., near Travolta’s home. She comforted John after Kelly, 57, passed away from breast cancer that year.
“She secretly hoped she and John might end up spending their golden years together,” says the source, and regularly spoke with him on the phone.
“I don’t think Kirstie was ever going to give up. I know she went to her grave carrying a torch for John.” Apparently, the feeling was mutual. After learning she died, Travolta declared, “I love you, Kirstie. I know we will see each other again.”