- Olivia Newton-John recently passed away after a life-long battle with breast cancer
- This was not the first time John Travolta lost a loved one
- He is no stranger to cancer
John Travolta has had to cope with the loss of many dear friends. He has gone through many ups and downs, good days and bad days. He has sadly lost four important women in his life due to breast cancer. In 1977, his girlfriend at the time, Diana Hyland, passed away. She was 41 years old at the time and he was 23.
This was the first time the actor was introduced to the terrible disease that would follow him throughout his life. Shortly thereafter, his mother Helen Travolta also fell ill. In 1978 she also lost the fight against cancer.
John Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, lost the battle to breast cancer
In 1989 he met the actress Kelly Preston. They got married and had three children together. Unfortunately, they also had to cope with the death of their eldest son Jett, who died at the age of 16 after suffering an epileptic seizure.
In 2020, his wife Kelly Preston, died at age 57 after a two-year battle with breast cancer, at age 57. Two years later his fellow co-star Olivia Newton-John passed away. They met while filming the hit musical Grease and danced their way through America in the 1950s.
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Their performance in the hit musical turned them into superstars, and since then they maintained a real-life friendship. Olivia's death hit John Travolta hard, as he revealed on Instagram in an emotional post:
"My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so much better. Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours from the first moment I saw you and forever!
Your Danny, your John!"
