Kelly Preston Credits Scientology Center As Her 'Rock' After Son's Death

After her 16-year-old son, Jett, suffered from a fatale seizure just two years ago, Kelly Preston and husband John Travolta were left devastated by the loss. But Preston credits her controversial beliefs for helping her see the light at the end of the tunnel.

The actress and mother to 11-year-old Ella Bleu and baby boy, Benjamin told Health magazine's September issue that the Scientology center was her rock during her most difficult times: "I don't know if I would have made it through without [the Scientology center]. We've been able to navigate through it and to come to a place that is a lot better."

This isn't the first time that Preston has made her devotion to Scientology public. Preston previously sang her praises to Scientology's founder on the "Today" show: "L. Ron Hubbard found that the single source of aberration, of psychosomatic illnesses, stress, fears, worry, things like that, have to do with the reactive mind, and in that part of the mind is different words and commands that can come back to affect you later in your life. I'm blessed with, my kids have always been amazing, very calm, very peaceful, happy, and I absolutely know that it's very much because of that."

Click through to read more from Kelly Preston's interview with Health.

Check out these celebs who are similarly linked to Scientology:

1 of 13

John Travolta And Daughter Ella Bleu

1 of 14

First Slide

Previous Slide

@

Jessica Pare Teeth: 'Mad Men' Star Discusses Her Famous Feature

Kim Kardashian Tweets Photo Of Scott Disick's Car, Ghostlike Girl

Beastie Boy Dead: Celebrities React On Twitter

Marilyn Monroe Nudes: Lost Photos From Her Last On-Set Shoot

Kim Kardashian Without Makeup: Kris Jenner Tweets Creepy Photo Of Kim Sleeping (PHOTOS)

Celebrity Oversharers: Kim Kardashian, Courtney Stodden, Alicia Silverstone Give TMI

comments(465)

featured comment

Reply | Share

kaala said on 18 Thursday 2011 am31 8:13 am: scientology could be one of the reasons they didn't give Jett the seizure preventative drugs so that he would not have a seizure.

Total comments: 465 | Post a Comment

1 of 14

Scientologist?

Rank #2  |  Average: 4

No Way! Practically The Poster Child

• 
  1
• 
  2
• 
  3
• 
  4
• 
  5
• 
  6
• 
  7
• 
  8
• 
  9
• 
  10

Current Top 5 Slides

loading...

Choose your Top 5 Slides

UserName

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Top User Slides

← Prev|Next →

 | Become a fan

Picked These as the Top 5 Slides in the Slideshow

loading...

Users who voted on this slide

← Prev|Next →

loading...

Comments

[jake192168]

07:46 AM on 08/26/2011

kelly is right it is in the brain. those feelings are all a function of balances among dopamine,sertonin,norepi,epi and some others. its common sense chemistry. but religion is not about chemistry it is about the spiritual. its about how you treat yourself and others. there is the physical world which god created and not ron hubbard. god does not interfer with the real world on you,becuase he gave you free will to interact with it and make it better or worset.it's up to you. scientology is just psychology nothing more. it has nothing to do wth religion.

[multidoc]

09:34 AM on 08/26/2011

Oh, it's a religion all right, jake, just not one that believes in god. Here's your definition:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/religion

The funny thing is, most $cientologists (privately) would disagree with me. I never knew one who thought that calling themselves a religion was anything but PR for the public and a tax dodge for the membership.

[JDM73]

06:33 PM on 08/24/2011

That's nice. I wish regular, non-independently wealthy people who got sucked into Scientology received the same treatment as the church's celebrity members, but they don't.

[imax5]

01:29 PM on 08/22/2011

The Lord watches over ALL

[multidoc]

08:48 AM on 08/24/2011

And that's all he does -- watch.

[imax5]

12:26 PM on 08/24/2011

It is ok to take that position He Loves you anyway!

[jake192168]

07:48 AM on 08/26/2011

thats right you have free will he made the physical world for you. its up to you to improve it or make it worst.he challenges you and one day youll get to talk to him about what you did.

[lilipilicious]

01:22 AM on 08/22/2011

Well never underestimate the power of self delusion. I am anti religion anyway and frankly for me Scientology is not all that different from other types of organized religion - it is just newer. But I never cease to be amazed at this incessant needs of humans to insist that there is meaning behind it all. I think from an evolutionary perspective such methods aimed at bringing meaning to our lives lead to sanity so they can be considered a protection mechanisms but I mean still, this partocualr branch of faith takes the meaning utter nonsense ot newer heights.

I have this friend woh is in Scientology. She got in it after her mother died and she was devastated and really losing it, being all alone and no family. Scientology took care of her and now she has pretty much driven herself broke taking their courses. She is chasing after that sanity so much, she has compromised and turned a blind eye to many aspects of her life. At 45, she is unemployed and broke, despite a doctorate.

[imax5]

01:34 PM on 08/22/2011

Oh the difference is measured in $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ the Lord is with us all wherever we honor the Lord.Priests,Pastors,Rabbi,Ministers of all faiths comfort twith or without $$$$$$$,that is my take.....

[imax5]

12:25 PM on 08/24/2011

I would rather believe in The Lord and die and find out there isn't'; then to die and and not believe ,and find out there is.

[goncrazi]

01:27 PM on 08/24/2011

I've heard that so many times it almost makes me sick. For me, there is no way I could believe or pretend to believe any of it again. How are you supposed to believe in lies once you "know" (within yourself, what other's believe is their business) what you have been taught is nothing but reworked mythology? I have found the same "stories" in the mythology of almost all ancient peoples. If it is mythology when it concerns their "mythological gods" then it is also mythological stories when it concerns any "gods".

[tenstar1]

11:58 PM on 08/21/2011

Of course those money mongers came to her rescue. Scientology is as bad as the fools that are believing Darwins theory. MORONS!!!

[jake192168]

07:49 AM on 08/26/2011

its a philosophy not a religion. just remember that.

[drleebrew]

07:37 PM on 08/21/2011

You might as well buy a graphic novel for your sacred book as follow Scientology. Or maybe for Kelly and John, they really do have alien voices in their heads.

[Nivlag]

04:18 PM on 08/21/2011

OK, I'll start by saying that I'm talking out of my butt for this, but I'm pretty sure that their kid was severely autistic and Scientology does not recognize it. So I'm sure that the kid was not on any anti-seizure meds, because they are so against psychiatric drugs.

So I'm happy that the organization whose beliefs prevented the proper treatment of the child and thus bears some responsibility in his death, was able to comfort her in her loss.

[multidoc]

08:49 AM on 08/24/2011

Right on the nose! Fav'ed, because already fanned.

[goncrazi]

01:31 PM on 08/24/2011

His death had nothing to do with his "illness", it was an accident.

Jett Travolta, the 16-year-old son of the American star of Saturday Night Fever and Grease, and his actress wife Kelly Preston, died after hitting his head in the bath at the family’s holiday home on Grand Bahama. He was discovered by a nanny on Friday morning around 10am and his movie star father had desperately tried in vain to resuscitate him.

[multidoc]

03:49 PM on 08/24/2011

So uncontrolled seizures would have nothing to do with a fall in the bathtub?

[tomcat1974]

03:35 PM on 08/21/2011

what a fraud religion....but then again, a bunch of fraud actors are in it

[jake192168]

07:50 AM on 08/26/2011

its not a religion its a philosophy

[Man4AllSeasonsCU]

10:58 AM on 08/21/2011

There is only one 'ROCK" and only one.
All other 'rocks" are counterfeit and in the end will not give you true peace and happiness.

[JumpySnark]

10:14 PM on 08/21/2011

OR maybe they're pretty much all the same, and whatever magical cloud dweller you happen to put your faith into will supply the reassurance that people desire in their times of need.

[rsaisa]

10:55 AM on 08/21/2011

one wonders if she was with God instead of this mind altering, money grabing con group, how different her life would be.

[nancynancy]

10:53 AM on 08/21/2011

There's a sucker born every minute.

[fredredeye]

08:48 AM on 08/21/2011

The rock in her head what few she has.

[nancynancy]

10:52 AM on 08/21/2011

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[CPNASH]

06:50 AM on 08/21/2011

I personally do not hold any faith in science or religion, but I'm always glad to see any kind of belief enhancing someone's life positively. If Scientology continually works for Kelly & John that can only be a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

[multidoc]

09:27 AM on 08/21/2011

Yes, except their bizarre beliefs are very likely why their child died in the first place -- improper medical attention from early on.

[lisamb]

11:17 PM on 08/23/2011

Don't speak of what you don't know. And how do you know they are bizarre? I'm not a Scientologist and I wouldn't comment on something I know nothing about. I hate when people do and make assumptions.

[johnb123]

01:07 AM on 08/21/2011

I have yet to hear anyone say "My belief in evolution got me through this bad time in my life". :) As a Christian, I'm glad she found a way through this.

[GlamMom]

01:01 PM on 08/21/2011

FANNED....:)

[zenju2]

02:24 PM on 08/21/2011

Actually, I can honestly say that my understanding of evolution has indeed gotten me through bad times in my life. When you understand some of the big picture, it really can inspire you.

[LeftieLefty]

08:38 PM on 08/21/2011

Me too; understanding the vastness of the universe (or at least what we have come to understand so far) is much more comforting to me than any religion.

[Abigailia]

12:40 AM on 08/21/2011

All religions are made up.

[sympatheticheart]

02:25 AM on 08/21/2011

Since when?

[ColinStevens]

03:40 PM on 08/21/2011

Um. Since the dawn of time. Man looked up at the stars before science came along and said, "A big, invisible man with a beard in the sky must have created everything!" and then they wrote it down - some people chose to believe in the invisible man in the sky and stopped thinking - while some KEPT THINKING and STARTED TO FIGURE IT OUT.