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Quoting from the statement report of John Travolta's statement to the Royal Bahama's Police Force on 25th February 2009, as reported in the National Enquirer On line and subsequently in Gawker and Glosslips:
"On Monday 29th December 2008 I travelled to Grand Bahama Island. I was accompanied by my wife Kelly Preston, my son Jett Travolta, my daughter Ella Travolta, Eli Wheaton, Jeff Kathrein and others. We stayed at town houses at Old Bahama bay, Grand Bahama. My son Jett suffered from a seizure disorder and HE WAS AUTISTIC."
Why is this admission by John Travolta with respect to the tragic death of his son so important? Well because publicly John Travolta and his wife Kelly had both denied Jett suffered from autism and instead insisted that he suffered from a rare condition known as Kawasaki's syndrome; Kawasaki's syndrome tends to affect young children, with 80% of sufferers being under 5 and has visible symptoms such as rashes, swollen lymph nodes and swollen red cracked lips.
It is well known John Travolta is a member of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology. According to the organisation's de-facto leader, David Miscavige the organisation is on a mission for the "global obliteration of psychiatry". The organisation denies all psychiatric disorders as inventions of the psychiatric industry so they can make a profit; a potentially believable view were it not taken to the extreme. As a result they also deny all psychiatric treatment, even going so far as to suggest such treatments are only meant to enslave one to the treatment.
Although the organisation calling itself the church of scientology always claims it does not treat medical conditions and that a "detoxification program" called the purif run down is a spiritual practice rather than medical Kelly Preston claimed a detoxification program based on the teachings of the organisation helped improve Jett's health when he was just 2 years old; the purif run down involves g hours in a sauna and high doses of vitamins in order to dissolve, sweat and drive out toxins.
As a members of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology and an adherents to the teachings of same, John and Kelly could not come to admit their son had autism even later in his life, although there is some evidence they were torn with respect to his treatment; apparently Jett was from time to time prescribed proper drugs to control his mental state and seizures.
The somewhat patchy treatment of Jett might be down to the influence of John's brother Joey who holds a degree in Special Education and started the non-profit organisation Actors for Autism in 2004. Alas this was not enough and Jett's seizures were apparently uncontrolled at the time of his unfortunate death; apparently Jett's seizure medication Depakote was "becoming less effective" but rather than seek an alternative, as is often necessary in such cases, John and Kelly chose instead to simply stop giving it to him.
The admission by John in his interview to the police on Feb 25th, over a month since his son's death on Jan 2nd 2009, is important because it suggests may be John Travolta is having some justifiable doubts about the teachings of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology as well as the part he played in the tragic death of his son; had he and his wife chosen to ignore the teachings of the organisation calling itself the church of scientology and got proper treatment Jett's seizures would have been under better control and on balance this tragedy would not have happened.
I cannot imagine the hell a parent goes through on loosing a much loved son or daughter and I certainly cannot imagine the hell of someone who comes to the realisation that the loss could have been prevented were it not for dogmatic beliefs they've held for most of their life.