“She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer,” he wrote. In the wake of her passing, the Get Shorty actor posted a loving tribute in his wife’s honor on Instagram. Preston died in July 2020 after having secretly battled breast cancer for two years. “Certainly having little Ben has been a beautiful kind of glue for us to rebound after tremendous loss,” the Grease actor said on Good Morning America in September 2016. Their youngest son, Benjamin, was born in 2010 - the year after Jett died at 16 after experiencing a seizure. They welcomed son Jett in 1992 and daughter Ella in 2000.
Travolta and Preston got engaged on New Year’s Eve in 1990 and tied the knot twice the following year.
