John Travolta: Trip to Haiti Was "Pretty Rough"
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John Travolta -- whose son Jett died last year at age 16 -- tells UsMagazine.com it wasn't easy traveling to Haiti, which was devastated 17 days ago by 7.0-magnitude earthquake.
While there this past week, he and wife Kelly Preston -- who flew a jetliner carrying relief supplies and 22 doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology -- met a 7-year-old boy who had lost his entire family.
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"He was walking with a limp because he had been hurt," Travolta, 55, told Us Thursday at the NYC premiere of his new action-thriller From Paris With Love. "All he wanted to do was see the inside of our plane. We took him through and gave him treats and all that stuff. To think that he doesn’t have a family now is pretty rough."
Travolta told Us the good news about the trip is that "everything we brought down, we actually are certain they used because we got a report from our personal doctors. We basically shopped for it, brought it down and then gave them what they needed."
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Added Preston, 47, "They're using [supplies] in the hospitals now. They're able to perform surgeries ... It's wonderful."
She credits his church with helping organize everything.
Preston said several hundred volunteer ministers flew to Haiti where they "set up tents" and helped out doctors. The ministers aren't providing spiritual counseling; they're helping "more in the physical assists," Travolta told Us.
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Travolta posted photos from their trip on his website. One shot shows him and Preston in their specially outfitted vintage Boeing 707, which bears the name "Jett Clipper Ella" in honor of their late son and daughter.
Travolta's From Paris With Love costar Jonathan Rhys Meyers isn't surprised about the actor's noble mission.
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"That's who he is as a person!" Meyers, 32, told Us at Thursday's premiere. "He wasn't doing it because, 'Hey, I'm a movie star and I've got an airplane!' He just did it because he's John - and that's just who he is."
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13John Travolta is a really nice guy. Too the leader of Scientology isn't. David Miscavige beats his staff and uses the e-meter (their lie detector) to ensure loyalty. Google "Truth Rundown" to find out more. Time to stop censoring the news JT. Time to Google David Miscavige and see what you're supporting.
John Travolta and Kelly Preston are great parents. I think it will really be better if they adopt the 7 year old orphan in this story. Bring up this boy who doesn't stand a chance unless they offered him a home.
I believe John Travolta, and Kelly Preston show true pure love to themselves, each other, their children and others. I so respect them. I only pray somehow God can heal their hearts through this. Their help in Haiti is surely needed and I am sure the people are so grateful for their generousity. I am sure Jett is looking down and smiling at his family and saying, "yea, that's what we do"... Much love to you and your family....You are truly kind genuine human beings.
Their generous and kind spirit is impressive.
Great, great, great! Nothing can ever replace a child but sometimes, helping others can help with the healing process.
Wonderful people.....have always loved him.
Nice article except for the scientologists going to Haiti - the christians do the same crap in order to get people to find God (or whatever else they call it)by setting up these religious orphanages - all under the guise of religion.
Travolta's all heart and quietly expresses his humanity and warmth with every cause and project he touches. Lovely man.
He's fantastic and has a huge heart!
God bless the Travolta's. Such big heart's. Love them
Lovely story except for the part about bringing 22 doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology. Typical cults/religions trying to indoctrinate the poorest and most unfortuante in the world. This is wrong.
I THINK THIS IS GREAT...EVERYONE DONATION WHETHER BIG OR SMALL...IS GREAT.
I luv John Travolta--he is a great, wonderful human being and you don't need to know him personally to say this, you can just see it and know that it is true.