The Paper's reporter Cheng Xiaojun
John Travolta posted the death of his wife, Kelly Preston, on social media accounts
On July 12, local time, American actress Kelly Preston died of breast cancer in Houston at the age of 57. Her husband, the famous Hollywood actress John Travolta, announced her death on personal social media. The two have walked hand in hand for twenty-nine years, and they were supposed to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of their marriage next year, but unfortunately they will never be separated.
Kelly in "Mr. Sweetheart"
Kelly Preston has starred in more than sixty films, including the blonde girlfriend who left Tom Cruise in the movie "Jerry Maguire" and the girlfriend of Arno Schwarzenegger in the action comedy "Twins".
Kelly in Brother Dragons and Rats
Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii, united States, and was originally named Kelly Kamalelehua Smith. Although the name in the middle is taken from the Māori word for "Hawaiian Myrtle Garden", she actually has only one-thirtieth of Māori ancestry, and her youth especially broke into Hollywood with the image of the standard blonde "American sweetheart".
When she was three years old, Preston's biological father died tragically, and her mother took her to reorganize the family with others, which also gave her a short period of overseas life at an early age. At the age of sixteen, she was scouted in Australia, began shooting print commercials, and two years later auditioned for "The Blue Lagoon" under the stage name Kelly Preston, but the role eventually fell into the hands of Brooke Little Silk, who was three years younger than her. Since then, she has continued her studies at the University of Southern California while looking for new acting opportunities. After making a number of cameo appearances in tv dramas, in 1985, at the age of 23, she finally got the opportunity to star in the youth comedy film Mischief, and she made her debut. Also in that year, Preston married actor Kevin Gage, but split up just two years later.
In 1987, while collaborating on the comedy The Experts, Preston sparked with actor John Travolta. But after that, the two did not immediately enter lover mode. Instead, Preston had a serious relationship with actor Charlie Sheen for a while, and even reached the stage of engagement.
In 1991, Preston married a second woman, to a husband who was eight years older than her, Travolta. Both are members of Scientology, and like Tom Cruise, another prominent Hollywood believer in the church, they belong to the new religious organization's gold signboard for global adherence.
After marriage, Preston and her husband cooperated many times, including playing a couple in the highly acclaimed science fiction film "Battlefield Earth", both of which won the American Golden Raspberry Award the following year, setting a record for an embarrassing female singer in Hollywood.
Co-starring with her husband John Travolta (left), "Battlefield on Earth" won both the Golden Raspberry Award
In fact, Preston has been nominated for a golden raspberry award three times since then, two of which were collaborations with her husband, including the 2009 comedy "Old Dogs" and the 2018 biopic "Gotti". In addition, when she participated in the comedy film "Cat with a Hat" alone, she also received a golden raspberry award nomination for the worst supporting actress.
2018's Biography of Gautie is the last collaboration between Kelly Preston (first from left) and her husband Travolta.
Although Preston and Travolta have always appeared in public as loving and happy, their family life has suffered a major blow: of the three children they had after marriage, the eldest son, Jett, unfortunately died of illness in 2009 at the age of sixteen. Jeter suffered from the relatively rare Kawasaki disease shortly after birth, and after a little older, he became an autistic patient and was at risk of sudden epilepsy. Originally, Kelly Preston had publicly stated that the self-created detoxification treatment created by Scientologist Ron Hubbard was very beneficial to the treatment of his son's stubborn disease, but unfortunate Jeter finally died of epilepsy on January 2, 2009, while the family was on vacation in the Bahamas. Since then, the couple has formed a non-profit organization in their son's name to provide financial support to children in need.
In 2018, Kelly Preston was diagnosed with breast cancer, and after two years of battling the disease, she finally couldn't escape the clutches of cancer. Her last work was the yet-to-be-released British comedy Off The Rails. In the film, she plays Kathy, a middle-aged woman over fifty years old, who has made an agreement with three girlfriends to retake the European continental railway tour that she played when she was young, in order to recall some memories of youth. But one of my girlfriends unfortunately died of illness, and could only transfer the train ticket to her eighteen-year-old daughter, hoping that she could complete the train journey with several elder aunts. Unexpectedly, after making this movie, Kelly Preston also completed her own life journey.
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