John Travolta was back on the stand yesterday morning in the Bahamas, speaking about how he came to realize former senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne were allegedly trying to extort US$25 million from his mourning family, reports eonline.com.
A week after he first took the stand in the extortion trial against himself and wife Kelly Preston, he arrived at a Nassau court yesterday morning wearing a charcoal gray suit and accompanied by his wife.
The actor, 55, continued with his testimony in the case but this time the focus was not on the emotional morning he discovered his 16-year-old son Jett unconscious, but on the allegations of extortion.
The actor said that it was one of his employees who first informed him of the threat and that he immediately consulted with his lawyer, Michael McDermott.
Travolta, who said he was never directly approached by Bridgewater or Lightbourne, said that the duo threatened to release information claiming he was at fault for his son's death if he didn't hand over the payment, saying they threatened to "imply that the death of my son was intentional and I was culpable in some way."
