Jeff Conaway's Family & Friends Speak Out On His Death
May 28 2011, Published 4:04 a.m. ET
Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
Breaking Celebrity News Staff Reporter
Jeff Conaway’s passing has his friends and family already missing him, but staying hopeful that he’s “in a better place.”
As Breaking Celebrity News was first to report the 60-year-old actor sadly died on Friday morning after he was pulled from the life-support that sustained him after he’d slipped into a coma.
Conaway’s first wife, Rona Newton John, (also his Grease co-star Olivia Newton John’s sister) told Breaking Celebrity News she was not with him in the hospital the moment he passed but had been there for the last couple weeks supporting him.
“I was not there today...but I’ve been there for the last two weeks. The whole thing is very sad,” Rona said.
“I know that down the road the family might do some kind of memorial. He’s probably in a better place.”
Grease’s leading man, John Travolta, spoke out on his co-star in a statement saying he was a "wonderful and decent man and we will miss him."
Travolta went on to say: "My heartfelt thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this very difficult time.”
Conaway’s heartbroken Taxi co-star, Marilu Henner, told Breaking Celebrity News: “I can’t believe he has gone...I really thought he was going to pull through.
“When I saw him in hospital just a few days ago he looked so handsome — the best he has been in several years — and there