John Travolta Pays Tribute To Late Wife Kelly Preston In Emotional Mother’s Day Video

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Preston, who was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith in Honolulu, Hawaii, died in 2020 at the age of 57 after a “courageous battle” with breast cancer that she fought “with the love and support of so many.”

Prior to her death, she was most known for her appearances in Jerry Maguire, Jack Frost, Sky High, and, most recently, Gotti, in which she co-starred with her husband, who played the titular gangster.

Kelly Preston and John Travolta. Credit: Alamy via

Travolta posted a montage of family images to Instagram, set to Barbra Streisand’s ‘Nice ‘n’ Easy,’ writing: “Kelly, we love and miss you. Mother’s Day greetings.”

Travolta, Preston, and their three children are featured in the video: Ella Bleu, 22, Benjamin, 11, and their late son Jett, who died in 2009 at the age of 16.

It has received over 380,000 views and thousands of comments from celebrities and fans alike.

Kate Ceberano said, ” “Oh, John, we adore and miss her as well! What a ray of sunshine! I’m thinking of you.” “So gorgeous,” Sofia Milos wrote.

Travolta, with whom she married in September 1991, previously stated that he and his family “would forever be grateful to her physicians and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centres that have assisted, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her sideā€¦ Kelly’s love and life will be remembered for a long time.’

“I was so drenched with everyone’s anguish that I didn’t know what to do,” Travolta said in an interview with Esquire about losing Preston.

“When you’re grieving, the first thing you should do is find a quiet area where you may mourn without being disturbed. The last thing I want to witness if I die tomorrow is everyone around me sink.”

The Pulp Fiction star explained that he’learned that sobbing for someone, living in sadness, is something unique,’ and that ‘grief is personal, and experiencing your own journey is what can lead to recovery.’

“The most essential thing you can do to aid someone else who is grieving is to let them feel it without interfering with yours,” he continued.