'John Travolta Dead' Goes Viral: Actor-Singer Victimized by Death Hoax

John Travolta is alive and well despite the emergence of the recent false death reports.

Travolta shared updates as he celebrated the holidays with his family. However, it did not exempt him from being the subject of a death hoax.

John Travolta Is Alive Despite Claims

The Sun noted that the phrase "John Travolta dead" dominated the social media sites this year, causing panic among Travolta's fans.

This followed a series of false reports claiming similar things, including in 2013 and 2022.

While the reports never mentioned the "cause of death," Travolta's social media updates dismissed the most recent hoax report all at once.

In 2017, Business Insider noted that Siri gave false information about the 69-year-old "You're The One That I Want" singer. The virtual assistant said, at that time, that he died at the age of 54 in 2009.

It turned out that Siri misread the reports about his son, Jett, who died in 2009. The media outlet contacted Apple about the issue and the clarification that Travolta was alive.

"The bigger issue is that some of these tools are used to divide people, to manipulate people, to get fake news to people in broad numbers, and so to influence their thinking," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the same year.

John Travolta Had a Near Death Experience

The "You Can't Stop the Beat" singer revisited the near-death experience he and his late wife, Kelly Preston, had before her tragic death.

The couple and their son Jett boarded a plane that had a total electrical failure.

"And then as if by a miracle, we descended as per the rules to a lower altitude. I saw the Washington D.C. monument and identified that Washington National Airport was next to it and I made a landing just like [Freddie] does in the film," he shared.

Despite the trauma, it pushed him to develop interest in joining the film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's 1975 novel about Royal Air Force pilot Freddie Hooke, who flies home for Christmas but experiences a total electrical failure while flying his de Havilland Vampire.

Travolta's wife died of breast cancer at the age of 57 in July 2020, years after the terrifying accident. The late actress had been receiving treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and other medical centers before her passing.

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