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  • John Travolta on Scientology: It’s ‘Not Understood’

    John Travolta appeared on Good Morning America on Monday, and the topic, of course, turned to Scientology. He was there to promote his new film, The Purger, but seemed to have quite an agenda regarding his religion, too.

    “People really need to take time and read a book. You know, that’s my advice. You can read New Slant on Life, you can read Dianetics,” he said. “I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do that, you’ll speculate, and I think that’s a mistake to do that.”

    It was only a couple of weeks ago that HBO aired Going Clear, a documentary that resulted in many questions about Scientology. Alleged abuses by the church are at the center of the documentary, which features former members of the organization who are highly critical of its practices. It even references John Travolta.

    The Church of Scientology’s own publication, Freedom, says that Going Clear is “glorifying admitted liars” and that the film and the book that inspired it are “transparent vehicles for their vendettas against all religion and people of faith.”

    John Travolta offered his own explanation during his GMA interview Monday about why Scientology comes under so much scrutiny and criticism.

    “Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target,” he said. “You know, 40 years for me, I’ve been part, and I’ve loved every minute of it.”

    His family has also done well with Scientology, John Travolta claims.

    “I’ve saved lives with it,” he said. “Saved my own life several times. Through my loss of my son [Jett, in 2009], it helped me every step of the way for two years solid.”

    What’s your take on Scientology? Do you believe people like John Travolta or do you think they’ve been brainwashed? Is the ‘religion’ a haven for wealthy Hollywood types like Travolta and Tom Cruise?

    Even if you’re not a proponent of Scientology, you may still wish to check out John Travolta in his upcoming film. The Forger opens in theaters on Friday.

  • Jett Travolta: John Travolta Says He Wouldn’t Have Made It Through His Son’s Death Without “Beautiful” Scientology

    Jett Travolta, John Travolta’s son, died in 2009 following a seizure.

    Without Scientology, John Travolta says he wouldn’t have made it out of that alive.

    Jett Travolta’s death left John Travolta in pieces.

    “Oh, my god, I wouldn’t have made it without the church’s assistance,” Travolta said of Jett Travolta’s death. “Honestly.”

    John Travolta was not only helped through Jett Travolta’s death, he has been helped, and has helped others, through many issues using Scientology.

    Travolta hasn’t seen the new documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, and he doesn’t intend to.

    He said, “I haven’t experienced anything that the hearsay has [claimed], so why would I communicate something that wasn’t true for me?”

    He added, “It wouldn’t make sense, nor would it for Tom Cruise, I imagine.”

    John Travolta said that while Scientology helped him through his son, Jett Travolta’s, death, it has had many more benefits, as well.

    He said, “[Scientology] has been nothing but brilliant for me. I’ve been so happy with my [Scientology] experience in the last 40 years that I really don’t have anything to say that would shed light on [a documentary] so decidedly negative.”

    He added, “I’ve been brought through storms that were insurmountable, and [Scientology has] been so beautiful for me, that I can’t even imagine attacking it.”

    John Travolta said that Scientology always works and he would never say anything negative about it.

    He said, “I’ve helped so many people through hard times. Loss of children, loved ones, physical illnesses. Through many tough, tough life situations I’ve used the technology to support them and help them. It’s always worked. So, why would I even approach a negative perspective?”

    He added, “That would be a crime to me, personally, to do that.”

    John Travolta obviously leaned very much on Scientology after the death of Jett Travolta, and it must have helped, but just how much of this documentary is accurate? Some of the clips are a little startling. Have you seen Going Clear? What did you think?

  • John Travolta Reveals Grief Over Son’s Death

    In a recent interview with Barry Norman of BBC, John Travolta revealed the devastating grief he felt over the death of his son, Jett, who died in 2009. The 60-year-old actor said that it was the worst thing that has ever happened to him and he didn’t know if he was ever going to get through it.

    Travolta’s son, then 16 years old, died when he hit his head on a bathtub after a seizure. The accident happened while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas. It was only after their son’s death that Travolta and wife Kelly Preston revealed that Jett had autism, since the Church of Scientology does not accept that the condition exists. Travolta has been a member of the church since the 1970s.

    In the interview, Travolta also mentioned that he was so overcome with grief that it took him all the strength he had to get better. He also showed his appreciation for his friends in Scientology who supported him daily for two years in order to help him manage his pain and loss.

    A couple of years after Jett’s death, Travolta and Preston welcomed another member to the family with the birth of their youngest son, Benjamin, who is now 3 years old. They also have a 13-year-old daughter named Ella.

    The 90-minute interview also tackled his career, including his hitman role in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film, Pulp Fiction. The role gave Travolta his second Oscar nomination, following his 1978 nomination for Saturday Night Fever.

    The actor has an upcoming biopic in 2015 wherein he plays the role of John Gotti Sr., who was a mobster in New York City. Travolta also mentioned his interest to act in the next James Bond film as the villain, and has already had a casual meeting with the film’s producer, Barbara Broccoli.

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  • John Travolta Opens Up About His Son’s Death

    If you remember, John Travolta’s 16-year-old son Jett Travolta passed away in 2009 after suffering from a seizure. Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston later confirmed that Jett had a history of seizures, along with being autistic.

    During a recent interview with BBC News, Travolta opened up about the lowest point of his life, and what it took to get him to the point he is at today. At the time of Jett’s death, Travolta described the pain of losing his son as “the worst thing that’s ever happened in my life.”

    “The truth is, I didn’t know if I was going to make it,” he admitted, during an interview at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London. “Life was no longer interesting to me, so it took a lot to get me better.”

    Travolta gives most of the credit for his recovery to the Church of Scientology. He explained that without the church, he didn’t think he would be able to get through the death of his eldest child. Travolta, now 59-years-old, has been a follower of the Church of Scientology since the early 70s, and says they have helped him through every tragedy he has been forced to deal with, including the death of Jett.

    “I will forever be grateful to Scientology for supporting me for two years solid, I mean Monday through Sunday,” Travolta explained. “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.”

    Travolta also discussed the gap in his career after filming the hit movies Saturday Night Fever and Grease, and how his new goal is to play a villain in a James Bond film.

    “It got a little complicated for a few years,” Travolta explained. “A lot of things added up to a five-year period that wasn’t so good for me. There were people who were much hotter than me who wanted the role, but Quentin put his career on the line and refused to make the movie without me in it.”

    Travolta and Preston have two other children: Ella Bleu, 13, and Benjamin, 3.

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  • John Travolta Wants to Be in Bond…James Bond

    John Travolta, the 59 year-old father and Academy Award-nominated actor, has become the epitome of a professional in his career; he has been one of Hollywood’s top male actors (and sex symbols) for over forty years, reaching a level of success that few ever do, being cast as the leading male in film after film, decade after decade.

    According to him. Travolta first broke into show business at 17, when he won his first professional role after spending two summers at a theatre camp.

    The Saturday Night Fever and Grease heartthrob relates that his interest in show business was borne long before his time at the camp and his first “real” acting job, however.

    “I could take out the garbage and I would be heard, Travolta told The Telegraph. “I never needed to do a lot to get attention, so my performing honestly came out of joy.”

    John Travolta has long-been one of the world’s most loved actors, as his humility and obvious zest for life have always been apparent, both through his personal, and professional, work.

    The Pulp Fiction star says that being humble is a trait he attributes to having come by after experiencing, both, life’s greatest successes, as well as its most debilitating losses and suffering; Travolta lost his long-time girlfriend, Diana Hyland, in 1977 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Then, in January 2009, the star and his wife of twenty-three years, actress Kelly Preston, experienced the most personal and heart-wrenching tragedy a parent can imagine: their 16-year-old son, Jett, who was the spitting image of his father, passed away after having a seizure in the Bahamas.

    Still, even in light of two such extremely painful events, Travolta says he has always been “a glass-half-full man…an optimist by nature.”

    “I’m probably less terrified of death than your average fellow now, because people so near to me have suffered before their time and I just feel that if they can do it, so can I. The edge – the panic that most people feel – has been taken off death for me. I almost feel like it’s disrespectful to fear it when others have been able to do it.”

    That perspective proved to serve the actor well, when, a year after Jett’s death, Travolta and Preston learned that they were expecting their third child; son Benjamin, now three, was born in November 2010.

    Travolta now says he has his life back on track after two years of angst and torment over Jett’s untimely death, and contributes his positive outlook today to Scientology, the religion he has been practicing since 1975.

    Travolta has taken a hiatus from acting for the last several years, staying almost entirely out of the public eye; now, however, Danny Zuko is back, playing a husband who suffers from memory loss after a car accident opposite Salma Hayek in the film, A Three Dog Life, based on the best-selling memoir by Abigail Thomas. The movie is being produced by screenplay adapter, Nick Guthe, and J. Todd Harris and Clark Peterson; The Solution Entertainment is currently looking for a buyer of the film in the European Film Market.

    In A Three Dog Life, Travolta will play the amnesiac husband of Abigail Thomas (Salma Hayek), a far cry from the villainous roles he has become so well-known for, and that he is still enjoying playing; he says that his quest for the bad-guy roles will probably continue until the day he gets to play such a character in a James Bond movie.

    He told The Telegraph that his still-unachieved goal will prevent him from really being able to “close the chapter on playing villains” until he is cast in a Bond.

    “I would love that,” he says. “They’re going a different way with their villain in this next film but I’ve spoken to Barbara Broccoli [James Bond producer] about it and she loves the idea, so that would be great.”

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