Others "believe may have kept the condition a secret because of the way Scientologists view illness," reported CBS News. Of course, Travolta and Preston have every right to keep details about their son's health private, but some believe the high-profile parents could have made a positive impact regarding autism awareness if they'd shared their experience sooner. "We would try all different things, and I felt when we were able to keep certain things at a bare minimum and do as healthy as possible, he did so much better," she said on an episode of The Doctors (via the New York Daily News.) "He was coming out of the autism," she claimed. "I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism," she said, citing circumstances during her pregnancy and Jett's infancy that she thinks played a role in his development. John married Kelly Preston in 1991 and is fighting two lawsuits from masseurs who claim he became sexually aggressive with them during massages.According to Us Weekly, Preston spoke about it for the first time nearly four years after Jett's 2009 death. Gotterba, 60, now owns a private jet company out of Santa Barbara, California. But the rumors certainly helped to improve John's image." "Close friends of John knew perfectly well there was no romance with Brooke. "The supposed relationship reached a head when John was being interviewed by a magazine journalist and just happened to take two lovey-dovey phone calls from Brooke during the interview," Clarkson wrote in his 1997 biography John Travolta: Back in Character. "The relationship ended shortly thereafter."Īnd while Travolta was peaking in his Hollywood superstardom status, author Wensley Clarkson claims his team scrambled to hide his homosexuality by setting him up on a date with 16-year-old starlet Brooke Shields. "After a few years, Doug grew apart from John sexually, and John's advances eventually started to repulse him," Britz said. Doug made it clear that it was very lucrative for him to be what he called John's 'personal right hand man' and homosexual partner," he said.īut Britz says Gotterba told him the relationship with Travolta was too much and he became turned off by John's "hairy body" and his weight gain between movies, which Gotterba said made him 'huge.' The video appeared to be shot in a hotel room. There were plates of food in front of him. "I personally saw about two minutes of Doug's home video showing John Travolta sitting at the end of a bed with his shirt off. Doug said John was constantly grabbing at his genital area, but he put up with John's sexual advances because working for him was 'lucrative.īritz also reveals that he was shown home video of Gotterba and Travolta in a hotel room. The tab says only that he confirmed his employment with the actor.īut Gotterbas post-Travolta boyfriend, Robert Britz tells The Enquirer, "Doug told me right at the beginning of our relationship that he'd had a homosexual relationship with John Travolta in the 1980s. Gotterba is not quoted by the Enquirer about his relationship with Travolta. He told me that John was gay and they had a sexual relationship," she said.
Doug is a wonderful guy and we are still good friends. Over the years, John Travolta has experienced sudden career highs and monumental lows.With the exception of Nicolas Cage, there is perhaps no other actor who has become as memeworthy as Travolta.
We both worked for John at the same time. She also says she was aware of Travolta's affair with Gotterba, who began working for the actor in 1981. It never bothered me, she is quoted as telling the Enquirer.
I did everything for him, including taking care of his personal and professional schedules. Joan Edwards was Travoltas secretary from 1978 to 1994 and is the first ex-employee to publicly say the actor is gay. The article is in the new issue of the National Enquirer, which hits newsstands Friday. Travolta and Doug Gotterba were lovers in the 1980s, according to Travoltas former secretary and Gotterbas ex boyfriend. The John Travolta sex scandal has exploded with a new report that the actor had a six-year gay affair with his pilot.