Jett Travolta, the 16 year old son of popular stars John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died Janurary 2nd. He has suffered from a seizure in the family’s vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. The teen had hit his head on the bathtub Friday morning and was dead at Rand Memorial Hospital, police spokeswoman Loretta Mackey told the Associated Press. According to police, a caretaker had found Jett unconscious in the bathroom around 10 a.m. An autopsy is being pursued to determine the exact cause of death. Preston told Montel Williams in an interview back in 2003 that when Jett was 2 he became, ”very, very ill, but it seemed like flu symptoms” before being diagnosed with Kawasaki disease. The condition, which usually affects children from ages 2 to 5, can cause inflammation of the arteries. Usually treatable, it can lead to lasting heart damage in rare cases. She had also said that he has suffered from asthma due to household cleaners and fertilizers. In 1994, John Travolta told PEOPLE how much he loved fatherhood, ”I can’t imagine what life would be like without Jett,” he said. “After he was born and cleaned up, I held him for hours while Kelly slept. When they came to take him away for various tests, I said, ‘No, you can’t see him today. You’ll have to do it another day.’ I went a little nutsy.”
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