Diana Hyland handed away in March of 1977, and it wasn’t lengthy earlier than John Travolta could be going through one other devastating loss. His beloved mom, Helen, was very clearly ailing by 1978, however in accordance with Wensley Clarkson’s biography, “John Travolta: Again in Character,” the remainder of the household had determined to not inform him that she had been identified with most cancers. He solely realized later that at the same time as he had been coping with Hyland’s analysis, sickness, and supreme passing, his mom was already conscious of her personal analysis.
She handed away in December of 1978, and Travolta was understandably devastated: He wavered in interviews and on publicity excursions, and he even backed out of his subsequent movie, which was slated to be “American Gigolo.” He’d later say, “I had an actual dichotomy wherein I had nice success and on the identical time, nice sorrow and tragedy. Lots of people obtained annoyed when my grief and tragedy obtained publicized. They have been saying, ‘Since you’re well-known, all of the sudden your loss is extra necessary than our loss.’”
He had one other shock to cope with on the heels of his mom’s passing: Six months later, his father married the girl who had been her nurse within the closing months of her life. Though Travolta and his siblings steadily got here to just accept the connection, his preliminary public response was to easily state, “June is a really good girl.”