Jett Crashes Scientology: Making Mileage From John Travolta’s Loss
JOHN Travolta’s son Jett Travolta is dead, and the Daily Mirror announces in a bold headline:
“TRAVOLTA SON HAD ‘DEATH–LIKE ‘SEIZURES’.”
He might well have had them right before he died in a Bahamas hotel. And Anorak readers may wonder if you can have a seizure once you are dead?
Of course, this story is not about Jett Travolta, who was famous in life for being named as an aeroplane. The story is one of celebrity. And the Mirror ends its piece on the death of a teenager is never knew with:
“Stars who have comforted Travolta and his wife with messages and phone calls include fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise.”
And in the Sun:
“Oprah Winfrey was due to arrive in the Bahamas…to comfort the couple. Tom Cruise, a fellow Scientologist… plans to visit the family.”
Tom Cruise… Scientology… A link? The Gawker website speculates:
Whatever the cause of his seizures, a Travolta family lawyer now says Jett had been taking Depakote, an anti-seizure medication, but had to stop it because of liver damage. Liver damage from Depakote is rare; more recently, the FDA has been concerned about its link to suicidal thoughts — exactly the kind of condition Scientologists they believe they can treat through the religious coursework they call “auditing.”
Owen Thomas then engages a line of truly awesome crassness and insensitivity:
“…the accusation will linger that they privileged their adherence to Scientology over their devotion to their son.”
Thomas resists the chance to headline his piece “Jett Crashes”, instead using:
Time to Audit Scientology’s Anti-Medicine Stance
And time to eke the gravy of sensation from a dead teenager…
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July 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Sam, gotta call you out, Siezures are quite common with Autism. Second, his parents took him off his meds because CO$ pressured them to because A. Autism does not exist to the church And B. It was a drug prescribed by psychitrist. Also, CO$ thinks all of bad things (Genocide, the Third Reich) was caused by psychitrist. The reason: Hubbard got butthurt about the American Psychitric association calling him out on his junk science of DIEnetics. So, like a true narcissit, he made up lies to smear the group because he was unable to ever accept fault with himself.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
funny you should mention the Third Reich there June - I was just thinking that this line of thought uncannily resembles a certain Mr Griffin and his wish to rid the UK of inconvenient individuals by sinking their dinghies in the English Channel….
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Even my Web of Trust add-on doesn’t trust them. I just tried following the $cientology link below.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Of course Scientologists use medical doctors. The Church of Scientology has always had the firm policy of not diagnosing or treating the sick. Medical doctors are trained to deal with the physical aspects of illness and injury. A Scientologist with a physical condition is always advised to seek and obtain the needed examination and treatment of a qualified medical professional. Once under medical treatment, a Scientologist then addresses his illness or injury with auditing to handle any spiritual trauma or other factors connected with the physical condition which may have predisposed him to illness or injury.
There are also many medical doctors who are Scientologists themselves.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Saddened, I LOVE the way you spell $cientology with a dollar sign. Everyone should do that from now on.
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Either way the Travolta’s are paying the ultimate price. Both are guilt stricked and destroyed over their sons death. I am certain they’d do things 100% differently if given the chance.
That being said large doses of Niacin have been associated with liver damage. The kind admonistered in $cientologies “Purification Rundown.” Depakote doesn’t damage the liver. HOWEVER the P Rundowns Jett had when he was a child quite possibly could have.
$cientology hokus pokus isn’t a substitute for actual medicine. Nor is it a reasonable avenue for those who aren’t sure about a Psychologist. Too many have died due to there false promises and incorrect assertions with regards to medicine and psychology. The Travolta’s are paying the price. How many NOT FAMOUS $cientologists do you think have unfortunately had to deal with similar circumstances?
July 21st, 2009 at 3:11 pm
“And time to eke the gravy of sensation from a dead teenager…”
No man behind the celebrity curtain here, move along. In fact, you are the bad one assuming you even look.
Spoken like a true celebrity worshiper.
Out here in the real world, the very few moms and dads that refuse to treat their children’s medical condition are punished– even when the child doesn’t die as a result.
Celebrity worshiping just makes me sick. There should be celebrity spankings, not worshiping such as this.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:17 am
Loads of Celebrity kids die. It’s normal. Like rehab and being on a reality T.V. show.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
This the Third Reich again?
January 5th, 2009 at 6:35 pm
oh. thanks june, i didn’t see him.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Scientology has a policy regarding disabled people: “Dispose of them quietly and without sorrow.” That is a direct quote from the founder L. Ron Hubbard.
There are also recorded lectures online where he talks about why some people are better off dead.
If the family staff are good, loyal scientologists they would have gotten rid of the kid just to get more money out of Travolta.
January 5th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Post No 5, he says he’s a Scientologist
January 5th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
who is terreo ?
January 5th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Thanks Sam, I think you’re right.”Terreo” is not a Scientologist, by the way. Tut, trolls.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:18 am
religious views didn’t lead to his death and there’s no such thing as seizure induced autism. he reportedly died due to a fall which may have been caused by epilepsy which he may or may not have been receiving adequate medical care for. anti seizure drugs don’t necessarily stop all epileptic fits, often they just reduce the amount of seizures and severity of them.
January 5th, 2009 at 11:04 am
If their religious views hold any water, and if there are claims of neglect , whether benign or of malicious intent, it will all come out in any inquest.
Aren’t there some US States which uphold religious views that lead to a death?
January 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
I’m a Scientologist and a member of the Citizens Commision for Human Rights (CCHR), and I’m APPALLED by the hypocracy of the Travoltas subjecting their child to the evil psych drug Depakote. LRH clearly states that a clear body/clear mind CANNOT be achieved while under the influence of ANY mind-altering drug. Jett’s Kawasaki syndrome is clearly a consequence of his overts and withholds, and can only be overcome through auditing and via large doses of niacin coupled with many hours in a sauna. LRH explained this very clearly, and he’d be ashamed of John and Kelly for giving their son Depakote. Poisoning their child like that probably directly caused Jett’s death, and it’s definitely an overt act against the Church of Scientology. If I were David Miscavage, I’d disconnect from the Travolta family - they’re clearly PTS/SP.
January 5th, 2009 at 10:49 am
When a child dies under mysterious circumstances and there are distinguishing signs pointing to parental neglect, you do not patiently wait for the parents to be done grieving. When you have a dead body, you start asking questions, even if it’s the dead body of a celebrity child’s son. You do not wait a couple weeks until the body has been cremated, all potential evidence destroyed, and lawyers have had time to come up with a good story.
I am not saying the Travoltas had any part in the death of their child. I’m sure their sadness is very much real and they will never fully recover from the loss of a child. That said, the question of why they deny their son had siezure-inducing autism (which many, many people diagnosed him with, including John’s older brother and John’s neighbor, who was a doctor with an autistic son) and why they did not give him medication for his illness.
Moderator - are the circumstances mysterious , or where they unexpected?
January 5th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Give it a rest guys, theres no need for this tabloid crap to make a quick buck!
January 5th, 2009 at 9:37 am
This article - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedishrag/2009/01/avid-critics-of.html - points out how critics of Scientology (and their pseudoscientific ‘purification rundown’) anticipated Jett’s death, warned of it, and pleaded with Travolta to rethink his beliefs. Travolta ignored those warnings, and his son paid the ultimate price. This is the worst kind of tragedy - a preventable one.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am
It kinda sounds like they have a point, actually. I mean, if Jett was denied proper medical treatment - and it sounds like he was - then his death is a direct consequence of that.
If your neighbor murdered his daughter with a frying pan, would you run outside when the cops arrive and call them insensitive brutes? Would you demand that they show some ‘tact’ during the family’s ‘time of grieving’?