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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKelly Preston Dies of Breast Cancer at 57: 'She Was a Bright, Beautiful and Loving Soul'
Kelly Preston has died. She was 57.
"On the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer," a family representative tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"Choosing to keep her fight private, she had been undergoing medical treatment for some time, supported by her closest family and friends," the family rep says. "She was a bright, beautiful and loving soul who cared deeply about others and who brought life to everything she touched. Her family asks for your understanding of their need for privacy at this time."
Preston is survived by her husband John Travolta and their children: daughter Ella, 20, and 9-year-old son Benjamin. Son Jett died at age 16 in January 2009.
https://people.com/movies/kelly-preston-dies-of-breast-cancer-at-57/?utm_medium=browser&utm_source=people.com&utm_content=20200713&utm_campaign=600369
"On the morning of July 12, 2020, Kelly Preston, adored wife and mother, passed away following a two-year battle with breast cancer," a family representative tells PEOPLE exclusively.
"Choosing to keep her fight private, she had been undergoing medical treatment for some time, supported by her closest family and friends," the family rep says. "She was a bright, beautiful and loving soul who cared deeply about others and who brought life to everything she touched. Her family asks for your understanding of their need for privacy at this time."
Preston is survived by her husband John Travolta and their children: daughter Ella, 20, and 9-year-old son Benjamin. Son Jett died at age 16 in January 2009.
https://people.com/movies/kelly-preston-dies-of-breast-cancer-at-57/?utm_medium=browser&utm_source=people.com&utm_content=20200713&utm_campaign=600369
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Kelly Preston Dies of Breast Cancer at 57: 'She Was a Bright, Beautiful and Loving Soul' (Original Post)
LizBeth
Jul 2020
OP
Very sad, especially since Travolta already went through this with his fiancee,
vsrazdem
Jul 2020
#10
I just read on that. And Jett had Kawasaki disease which is what they are seeing
LizBeth
Jul 2020
#11
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(103,858 posts)1. So sad


Dem2theMax
(9,451 posts)2. Wow. What a shock.
They lose their son in 2009, and now she passes away.
Heartbreaking for the family. She was way too young to go. Damned cancer.
RIP~Kelly Preston
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. What a shock. I didn't even know she was sick.
How sad, she was so young! My condolences to her family, they have had enough tragedy. RIP, Kelly.
JI7
(88,716 posts)5. this it's just too sad.
vercetti2021
(9,941 posts)6. Wow that's sad
Her death is shocking to me.
Skittles
(152,108 posts)7. to be 20 and have already lost a brother and a mum

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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)9. Sad

vsrazdem
(2,167 posts)10. Very sad, especially since Travolta already went through this with his fiancee,
Diana Hyland.
LizBeth
(9,931 posts)11. I just read on that. And Jett had Kawasaki disease which is what they are seeing
in little ones today connected to covid. I didn't know about Hyland. Sad sad.
ScratchCat
(1,831 posts)12. I didn't remember that they had another child after Jett died
Wow, how sad.