London, January 5 : `Heartbroken' John Travolta has revealed how the actor tried his best to keep his son from passing away.

Sixteen-year-old Jett, who had a history of seizures arising from the rare condition Kawasaki Disease, had been found unconscious on January 2 by caretaker Jeff Katharain.

He is thought to have died after hitting his head on a bathtub following a seizure in a hotel bathroom on a family holiday in the Bahamas.

New York, January 5: An autism activist says that John Travolta's chronically ill son Jett's death, who is believed to have died after hitting his head on a bathtub following a seizure, could have been avoided had his Scientology practising parents decided not to follow their religion''''s anti-medicine theories.

Sixteen-year-old Jett was speculated to have been suffering from autism, a brain development disorder that impairs social interaction and communication, and also produces restricted and repetitive behaviour.

The activist said that the health problems of the teenager, who began suffering from seizures at the age of two, could have been better treated with medicines.

London, January 5 : `Heartbroken' John Travolta and wife Jelly Preston have spoken of their grief on the death of their son Jett in their first public statement.

The couple's 16-year-old son is thought to have died after hitting his head on a bathtub following a seizure in the family's holiday home, Old Bahama Bay resort, in the Bahamas.

New York, January 3: Doctors say that the childhood illness that Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta's son Jett had been suffering from, scientifically called

Kawasaki disease, could not be blamed for his death because it was unlikely to cause the boy's reported seizure.

"Seizures are not part of Kawasaki disease," the New York Daily News quoted Dr. Stanford Shulman, a specialist in the disease at Northwestern University''s Feinberg

School of Medicine, as saying.

London, January 3: Oscar-winning Hollywood star John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, has passed away.

The boy, who was plagued by fits, was found dead in a bathtub.

Jett was staying with his father, mother Kelly Preston, and eight-year-old sister Ella Bleu at their Bahamas holiday home.

According to reports, he fell ill and hit his head.

He was rushed to hospital in Freeport from the Old Bahama Bay Resort on Grand Bahama island, but he was dead on arrival.

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