How John Travolta paid tribute to his late wife Kelly Preston on Mother’s Day

“I learned that to grieve for someone, to grieve, is something personal,” he shared in April 2021. “Grieving is individual and going through your own journey is what can lead to healing. The most important thing you can do to help someone else when they are grieving is to allow them to experience it and not complicate it with your own.”

The Oscar nominee said many people tried to comfort him after Kelly’s death, but it didn’t help, saying, “I felt so saturated with everyone’s sadness that I didn’t know what to do.”

“I felt so saturated with everyone’s sadness that I didn’t know what to do,” she told the outlet. “The first thing you should do when you are grieving is to go to a place where you can grieve without any interference.”