• Tragedies: Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, dies at 57
  • Cinema.The tragedy that John Travolta hid after 'Saturday Night Fever'

The life of John Travolta (66) was not exactly without family misfortunes. Before his wife, Kelly Preston, who just died at the age of 57 from breast cancer, was his first partner, also the American actress, Diana Hyland, who died of the same disease on March 27, 1977.

They had met a year earlier, when the two filmed The Boy in the Plastic Bubble together , in which Hyland, 40, played the 22-year-old mother of Travolta. He was then a young and very attractive actor who made teenage girls delirious and with an anticipated brilliant career, while she was already a consecrated actress.

Diana, born in Ohio, had debuted as an actress in 1955, at the age of 19, in an episode of Robert Montgomery presents . In the following 10 years he participated in a multitude of roles such as in The Eleventh Hour , The Fugitive and In the limits of reality . Then came his lead role in the film, The Human Pack , alongside Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Despite the age difference between them (18 years old), Travolta fell surrendered to the Hyland personality. "I was never more in love with anyone in my life. I thought I had been in love before, but no. From the moment I met her I was attracted," said the Grease protagonist many years later .

Actress Kelly Preston, wife of John Travolta, dies at 57

After filming The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, both actors announced that they were going to live together, at which time they had to fight against all kinds of malicious comments because of the 18 years that separated them. Hyland had divorced actor Joe Goodson, to whom she had been married for some years and with whom she had her only child, Zachary.

"I have more fun with Diana than with anyone in my life. And the strange thing is that before we met, I thought that I would never have a successful relationship. She told me that she thought the same. So, bam, we met and fell in love," she said. Travolta when asked about the age difference.

The happiness was installed in the home they shared, along with the son of the actress, and even had plans for the future, in addition to many job proposals. Like Saturday Night Fever , which Travolta started rolling with Hyland. But all the couple's projects stopped abruptly at Christmas 1976.

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Hyland underwent a medical examination, after feeling ill for a few days. What she believed to be the flu turned out to be advanced breast cancer . Despite undergoing an operation, the actress died in March 1977, in Los Angeles, California, accompanied by her great love, John Travolta, who temporarily left the filming of Saturday Night Fever to accompany Hyland in his last moments.

Love smiled at Travolta again in 1990 when he met Kelly Preston (57) with whom he married in September 1991 at the Hotel Crillón, located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Together they have formed one of the most stable couples in show business, despite facing a tragedy as harsh as the death of their first child, Jett, just 16 years old, in January 2009.

Travolta and his son, Jett, who passed away in 2009 at age 16.

The teenager died suddenly after a seizure crisis and passed out when he was on vacation with his family at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel in the Bahamas.

The couple's eldest son suffered from autism and in 2003 his mother revealed that he also suffered from Kawasaki syndrome, a disease associated with inflammation of the arteries.

After the bitter trance, the couple's third child arrived, Benjamin, who was born in Florida on November 23, 2010. A healthy baby weighing nearly 4 kilos.

But this weekend, breast cancer has once again led to the love of his life, 43 years after taking the first one.

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