It’s been one year today since Kelly Preston, the actress wife of former Grease star John Travolta, tragically passed away at the age of 57 following a private battle with breast cancer. On the one year anniversary of her passing, we wanted to take a look back at her life and some of her best moments.
Entertainment Tonight reported that Preston met Travolta when they both went in for a screen test together for the 1987 movie The Experts, and it was clear from the start that they had some serious chemistry. At first, the two were just friends because Preston was married to actor Kevin Gage at the time.
After Preston split from Gage later that year, he briefly dated George Clooney and was even engaged to Charlie Sheen at one point, but they broke up in 1990. Later that year, she began dating Travolta, and things moved quickly from there. They married in 1991, and were inseparable from then on.
Their love was immediate to fans, with Preston gushing over what a good kisser her husband was in a 1998 interview.
“My husband’s’ got great lips, really great lips,” she said. “Even if he wasn’t my husband I’d really like kissing him.”
While promoting her 1997 movie Addicted to Love, however, Preston admitted that she doesn’t like watching Travolta perform love scenes with other women on-screen.
“I know it’s just a film but if the kissing’s lasting a little too long I don’t like it,” Preston said with a laugh at the time. “I’m sorry, but it makes me [think], ‘You kiss me like that! That little romantic thing, that’s ours and ours alone!'”
Preston and Travolta starred together onscreen many times over the years, doing so for the final time in the 2018 movie Gotti.
“We love working together,” Preston said at the time. “It’s just easy… It’s effortless. We make each other laugh and we have a shorthand so it’s nice in that way.”
“We met on screen. So that’s the most familiar territory for us,” Travolta added. ‘That’s where we’re the most comfortable, because that’s what we share.”
Preston was survived by Travolta and two of their children, Ella, 21, and Ben, 10. She was predeceased by their son Jett.
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