BAHAMAS
Travoltas ‘heartbroken’ over death of son, 16
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — John Travolta said Sunday he and his wife, Kelly Preston, were “heartbroken” over the death of their chronically ill 16- year-old son, who collapsed at the family’s vacation home on Grand Bahama.
Police Superintendent Basil Rahming has said that a caretaker found Jett Travolta unconscious in a bathroom Friday morning and that he was later pronounced dead at a Freeport hospital. The youth was last seen entering the bathroom Thursday, according to Rahming’s police statement.
“We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief. We will cherish the time we had with him for the rest of our lives,” Travolta and Preston said in their first public statement since Jett’s death.
“Jett was the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for and lit up the lives of everyone he encountered,” said a statement posted Sunday on Travolta’s Web site.
Preston and Travolta have said that Jett became very sick when he was 2 and was diagnosed with Kawasaki syndrome, an illness that leads to inflamed blood vessels in young children.
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