Kelly Preston’s dying from breast cancer Sunday was a tragic finish to her 29-year marriage to John Travolta, which bore three youngsters: Ella Bleu, Benjamin and the late Jett, who died in 2009 of a seizure.
Preston’s passing at 57 is, sadly, not the first time 66-year-old Travolta has lost a major different to breast cancer.
In 1977, actress Diana Hyland, whom the actor had been critically courting for a yr, died of the exact same trigger. At 41, she was 18 years older than 23-year-old Travolta, and considerably scandalously performed his mom within the TV film “The Boy within the Plastic Bubble.”
As quickly because the cameras rolled, Travolta was smitten.
“I assumed I used to be in love before — however I wasn’t,” Travolta informed Individuals journal in 1977. “From the second I met her, I used to be attracted. We had been like two maniacs speaking on a regular basis on the set of ‘Bubble.’ After a month it turned romantic.”
Hyland by no means had the profession her younger famous person boyfriend would go on to take pleasure in. Already the star of TV’s “Welcome Again, Kotter,” Travolta would make “Saturday Evening Fever” in 1977 and the long-lasting film musical “Grease” in 1978 — a stretch of maximum success he’d by no means once more repeat.
On the time of her dying, Hyland was largely identified for TV roles corresponding to “Peyton Place” and “Eight Is Sufficient.” She additionally had one important Broadway half, enjoying Heavenly in Tennessee Williams’ “Candy Fowl of Youth” reverse Paul Newman. Nonetheless, she was a well-regarded actress who many consider would’ve accomplished nice issues.
Hyland was identified with breast cancer in 1977, and regardless of present process a mastectomy, her prognosis received worse. Devoted till the tip, Travolta was with Hyland when she died, telling Individuals he “felt the breath exit of her.”
The actor by no means considered his early romance as a fling.
“I picked out a home, and Diana and I had been planning on shifting in proper after this film,” he informed Individuals. “If she was alive, it is extremely potential I might have married her.”
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