John Travolta Boasts How He Helped Cure 'Car Wreck' Victim in Church of Scientology Magazine Interview
John Travolta has claimed he helped a car crash survivor who was suffering "constant pain" from a broken ankle by using a mysterious Scientology procedure called "an assist" -- leaving the victim "noticeably better" afterwards.
The Saturday Night Fever star, who has been studying Scientology since 1975, spoke about the incident in the controversial religion's latest edition of their publication, Celebrity Magazine.
"I was in Shanghai recently at a work event and the Master of Ceremonies' best friend had recently gotten into a car wreck. He had broken his ankle and was in constant pain," the 57-year-old revealed in an article titled "John Travolta: Stayin' Very Alive."
"I asked him permission to do some Scientology assists and he said, 'Okay sure'.
"People were standing around watching as I did them. You could actually see him confronting the pain and after a while he looked up at me and said 'I feel better' so I said 'Okay end of assist.'
"He had gotten noticeably better and I was chomping at the bit for more."
The popular star and devout Scientologist spoke about how he liked to use his unorthodox skills to help people that he meets on the street.
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According to the Scientology handbook, an 'assist' is a process whereby a Scientologist helps an individual to heal himself -- or to be healed by another agency -- by removing his or her reasons for precipitating and prolonging his condition and lessening their predisposition to further injure themselves or remain in an intolerable condition.
The TV and film icon, who holds 11 licenses to fly jet airplanes, credits the religion for helping him become such an accomplished aviator.
In the interview, Travolta reveals that he used to drive his aeronautics instructors crazy because he was so detailed in his requests about how every part of a plane worked.
"I'm a high school dropout. Now, what are the odds of a high school dropout having 11 jet licenses? Not very high. Well, with just a little bit of Study Technology under my belt found I could totally understand the subject and for that matter any subject that I chose," he added.
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Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston are enjoying being parents again to their infant son Benjamin Travolta, 2, after their son Jett, who suffered from autism, died at the age of 16. He hit his head in a bathtub at the family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Hotel on the Grand Bahama Island in 2009.
And during a recent appearance on The Doctors, Preston opened up for the first time about Jett's autism and what she believed caused it.
"He was autistic, he had seizures, and when he was very young he had Kawasaki syndrome. I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism," Preston, 50, revealed.
For her, those included a bout of food poisoning while she was pregnant, her 'fast and hard labor' and taking antibiotics while breast feeding, which gave Jett thrush (a common yeast infection in the mouth which has been linked to a symptom of autism).
Travolta and Preston, who also have a 12-year-old daughter Ella, are among Scientology's highest profile celebrities in Hollywood, as well as Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley and Jenna Elfman.
Wow, he's nuts.