Preston was diagnosed with cancer in his early years. His family kept the details of Preston’s fight private, except to their close circle. This meant that shock and sorrow spread far and wide. Their daughter was their child. Ella Bleu23 and 22 Benjamin, 11, together. The eldest of their children, Jett, died at 16, a crushing loss that they weathered together—as they did everything in life.

Let’s just say that I wasn’t happy married. Preston shared her story with Cohen, about how she was in the same situation when she met her second husband.

She had been Mrs. Kevin Gage since 1985, the couple having starred together in the 1986 cult-classic SpaceCamp—and though she was candid about not being happy later (they divorced in 1987), she played it cool in the moment.

Travolta said, “I recall she was walking down the steps,” Travolta first saw her and began to talk with her. Us Weekly 2018 “And she was at the top and I asked her if I could ask her a question. “And I was on top, and I asked her a question. “Is that a good thing?”

Preston wasn’t quite in the mood to open her mouth right then, according to Travolta. “She said, ‘I love it,'” Travolta remembered, “and I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be great to be married to someone who loves being married?'” Travolta lost his girlfriend. Diana HylandThey were both diagnosed with colon cancer in 1977. They met making the 1976 TV movie The Boy and the Plastic Bubble.)