DLNews Staff:

I love you, Kirstie. I know we'll meet again."

Nobody knew that your feelings in the cult film "Look who's talking" were real!

Actress Kirstie Alley is dead. According to her family, the 71-year-old died on Monday of cancer, which she had only recently been diagnosed with.

Alley and Travolta made three Look Who's Talking family films together

Among the mourners is her film colleague and friend John Travolta (68). In three "Look Who's Talking" films, the two warmed the hearts of their fans together. The Hollywood star is now touchingly saying goodbye to Instagram.

Alley's relationship "was one of the most extraordinary relationships I've ever had," wrote John Travolta. "I love you, Kirstie. I know we will meet again."

Travolta also posted two photos of his girlfriend, who was more than just a fellow actress to him. One that shows her radiantly beautiful in a white dress. And one on which the two beam at each other.

Because the chemistry between the two was not only right on the screen, but they enchanted their audience in the "Look Who's Talking" film series (1989, 1990, and 1993) as James and Mollie.

When Kirstie Alley starred in the UK version of Celebrity Big Brother, she opened up about her romantic feelings for John Travolta.

"I almost ran away and married John Travolta," the actress revealed in 2018 to her roommates and thus to all TV viewers. "I loved him, and I still love him. If I hadn't been married, I would have run off and married him — and I'd be on a plane today because he has his own." And she recalled, "I think I kissed Travolta."

But the little romance didn't turn into anything serious. Because both were married at the time - Kirstie Alley to actor Parker Stevenson and John Travolta to his great love and now deceased wife Kelly Preston - the strong feelings for each other were not lived out.

It wasn't just acting and romance that connected Kirstie Alley and John Travolta. Both also confessed to the controversial religious movement Scientology.

But Alley could never forget her extraordinary love for Travolta. "John would agree that our falling in love was mutual," she said on a 2018 podcast with journalist Dan Wootton, 39. She also noted that resisting romance was "one of the hardest things" she's ever had to do.

They say that even Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, noticed something was up. According to Kirstie, Travolta's love interest even approached her about it. "Why are you flirting with my husband?" John's wife is said to have asked his fellow actress. "And that was when I had to make a decision, and that was pretty much the end of the story," Kirstie Alley recalled in the interview.

The mini-romance turned into a lifelong friendship. "She's my soulmate," John Travolta said of his special connection to Kirstie Alley in a 2019 interview with US Weekly.

He could even have imagined a new version of the famous "Look Who's Talking" films. "I would do anything with Kirstie," he said three years ago.

Now the Hollywood star mourns his Kirstie. He lost the second of his favorite colleagues to the insidious disease of cancer this year after "Grease" star Olivia Newton-John († 73). But he indeed revels in many good memories because they stay forever.