Jett Travolta Death Controversy
January 5, 2009 by staralicious
Filed under Celebrity, John Travolta
As is the norm in high profile deaths, controversy surrounds the death of Jett Travolta.
The Bahama Police and the Travolta camp differ in their time line for Jett’s death.
Travolta’s camp are adamant that Jett was not left unattended for more than 10 hours, as claimed by police
The Travolta’s and their two nannies spent January 1st boating, before returning to their townhouse at around 6 PM. Jett was tired and went to his room to watch some television.
Nanny, Jeff Kathrein, who is rumored to be Travolta’s gay lover, watched TV in the next room, while the second nanny, Eli, was out, returning to the townhouse at 11:30 PM, when both nannies went to bed. When Jeff woke the next morning, he went to the bathroom and found Jett laying on the floor
According to police, Jett was last seen at around 11:30 the night of January 1, when he went to the bathroom.
Travolta’s lawyer, Michael McDermott, says Eli or Jef may have gone into the bathroom during the middle of the night, so the time frame would have been much shorter.
McDermott also says that when John and Jeff administered CPR, there may have been signs of life.
The police however are sticking to their timeline and disagree with the versions coming from the Travolta camp.
Personally, it is understandable that a child of his age could go to the bathroom late at night, fall and hit his head and remain undiscovered until the morning. Trying to put spin on the time line would appear to be a useless exercise. Of greater concern are the reports surrounding Jett’s ‘condition’.
Jett had reportedly suffered from grand mal seizures in the past and had taken anti-seizure medicine which the Travolta’s say did not work, so stopped administering it to him.
Further controversy comes from this report, where are friend of John’s brother, Joey Travolta tells of the arguments in the family surrounding Jett’s illness.
The friend says that Joey and John regularly argued over the cause of Jett’s problems, with Joey believing the cause was Autism, which John refused to acknowledge due to it being against his Scientology beliefs.
Joey, learned about the disorder while making his documentary, ‘Normal People Scare Me’, when he interviewed 65 autistic youngsters.
The friend went on to say that:
“Joey could see Jett in every one of those 65 kids he spoke to. It was so obvious Jett was autistic just from spending five minutes with him, but the cruel fact of their religion meant his parents simply did not accept it.”
“Parents who had children in the same classes as Jett would gather round after school and say, ‘Are they in denial or what?’”
Scientologists believe mental illness is psychosomatic and reject the use of drugs to treat and mental illness.
I’ll let you form your own opinion.
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