Pulp Fiction star John Travolta has opened up about his son’s death and confessed that “it took a lot to get [him] better”.
The American actor’s 16-year-old son, Jett, suffered from autism and died in 2009 when he banged his head off the bath during a seizure. The Grease star admitted that his son’s death was “the worst thing that’s ever happened in my life.”
Talking to Barry Norman at a Q&A session in London, he added: “The truth is, I didn't know if I was going to make it. I didn’t want to wake up.”
The 60-year-old, who has two other children, 13-year-old Ella and Benjamin who is three, with his wife Kelly Preston, admits that when his son died his “life was suddenly no longer interesting to me.”
However, he credits his faith in Scientology for helping him to come to terms with Jett’s death. He said: "I will forever be grateful to Scientology for supporting me for two years solid, I mean Monday through Sunday.
Travolta added: "They didn't take a day off, working through different angles of the techniques to get through grief and loss, and to make me feel that finally I could get through a day."
