Lisa Marie Presley's Travolta defence

10 months ago 07th Jan 15:00

Lisa Marie Presley has blasted critics for blaming John Travolta's teenage son's death on Scientology.

The 40-year-old singer, who is close friends with fellow Scientologists John and wife Kelly Preston, argues it is in poor taste for people to use the tragedy to attack their beliefs.

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Lisa said on her MySpace blog: "For the most part, people have been very sympathetic and respectful, but there are those certain ones that want to use this horrible tragedy as an opportunity to once again, blame and or attack Scientology?

"Folks, as popular as it has been to discriminate and ridicule Scientology and Scientologist's in the recent past , Now is NOT the time (sic)."

Jett, 16, died last week after suffering a seizure at the family's Bahamas hotel.

Lisa - who calls Jett's death "the worst possible tragedy a parent could be forced to endure" - also blasted claims Scientologists do not believe in using medication to treat certain illnesses, following reports John and Kelly withheld treatment from Jett.

She wrote: "I realise that there is a lot of misinformation out there about the subject. Among most of the crazy made up garbage that goes around about it , It is not true that Scientologist's 'Don't believe in' medical care , medicine or medical doctors and that may have something to do with this terrible tragedy. Just like anyone else, If one is sick , they go to the doctor, If a medication will make it better then they take it. If they don't then they are an idiot and you can't blame their religion (sic)."