The ‘Grease’ alum shares his daughter Ella Bleu, 26, and sons Benjamin, 15, and Jett, who died at age 16 in 2009, with late wife Kelly

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• John Travolta says his wife Kelly Preston died knowing she “did well” raising their kids
• The actor said their children exceeded every parent’s dream and called them his greatest source of pride
• Travolta shares daughter Ella Bleu, son Benjamin and late son Jett with his late wife Kelly Preston

John Travolta knows that he and his late wife Kelly Preston did well in raising their three kids together.

In an interview with ExtraTV, published on Thursday, Nov. 12, the Grease alum, 72, was asked how proud he is of his kids. Travolta shares his daughter Ella Bleu, 26, and sons Jett, who died at age 16 in 2009, and son, Benjamin, 15, with his late wife Preston, who died in 2020 at age 57, two years after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“My children are… It’s hard to find the words,” Travolta began. “But every parent dreams that they’d have these ideal children, and they live up and beyond it. I can leave this lifetime knowing I’ve done well, and Kelly knowing that she did well. I really can say that.”

“I’m very proud of them,” he added.

In October, Travolta marked what would have been Preston’s 64th birthday by sharing a clip of the couple’s daughter, Ella Bleu, making her Paris Fashion Week debut.

The montage clip posted on Instagram featured multiple moments from Ella’s time in Paris for Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2027 show, with the camera capturing her getting ready, as well as walking the runway alongside stars including Olivia Colman and Gigi Hadid.

Audrey Hepburn’s version of “Moon River” played in the background of the post, which Travolta captioned, “Look at your baby girl now Kelly!! Happy birthday, you should be so proud!!” 

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Ella recently starred in her dad’s film, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, which the actor dedicated to Preston and his late son, Jett.

“I dedicated the film to Kelly, to my son Jett, to my brothers and sisters, to my mother and my father, because they are the model from which this film was born,” he told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in June.

When asked how he was able to stay optimistic despite experiencing so much pain and loss through the years, he told the outlet that, while “life has certainly tested me,” his “nature is to look for the positive, even in the face of the worst.”

“I’m not made to remain absorbed in the darkness,” Travolta continued. “I can look at the darkness, but I don’t choose to die in that darkness.”

Propeller One-Way Night Coach is available to stream on Apple TV. Travolta’s next film, November 1963, is scheduled to be released on Dec. 4.

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