While The Travolta family is home grieving the loss of their teenage son Jett, their friend and fellow Scientologist Tom Cruise is trying to explain how horrible this is for his friends on The View. On the episode that will air Friday, Tom tells Barbara Walters and the girls how truly crushed John and Kelly are.

“It’s just horrific. Here you have a man, both of them doting parents, they’re wonderful people and …”

“I remember Jett when he was born,” Cruise later says. “I saw him when he was just a few months old and John just adored him, and both of his children, and Kelly. I just don’t have the words for it,” Cruise adds of Jett’s death.