Years before the bombshell allegation about Riley Keough dropped, Lisa Marie Presley had nothing but kind things to say about John Travolta and Kelly Preston's parenting... One year before Ben Travolta's arrival, John and Kelly tragically lost their 16-year-old eldest son Jett Travolta in 2009 after he suffered a seizure and hit his head on a bathtub during a family vacation to the Bahamas. While many were sympathetic to the couple amid the tragedy, some blamed what happened on them and Scientology.