Robin Williams doesn’t know how John Travolta coped after his son died.

The actor – who stars in family movie ‘Old Dogs’ alongside John, whose 16-year-old son Jett passed away in January 2009 following a seizure while on holiday in the Bahamas – can’t imagine there is anything “tougher” than outliving your children.

Referring to the Governors Ball, a party that took place after the Oscars ceremony in March, Williams said: “That’s the worst thing that can happen to you, to have a child die before you. It doesn’t get any tougher than that. There’s such a kindness to him. Sitting there at the Governors Ball, to hang with him for a minute, that was the best moment for me.”

The ‘Good Will Hunting’ star – who has three children, daughter Zelda, 20, and sons Zach, 26, and Cody, 18 – says his friend is like a “sweet panda” because he has dealt with Jett’s passing with such dignity.

He added to the USA Today newspaper: “He’s such a sweet man. He’s the human equivalent of a panda. I saw him after the Academy Awards. It was good just to sit with him and say, ‘How are you doing, man?’ He said, ‘I’m OK.’ “

Williams, 58, also admitted the time off work he had last year following surgery to correct an irregular heartbeat had given him the opportunity to reassess his life. He said: “It’s so nice having time off right now. There’s no rush. Enjoy it. When you have something like heart surgery, you appreciate the simple things, like breathing. I’m taking it a lot easier.”

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The American actors decided after a night of drinking together in Santa Barbara, California, they would join in with the celebrations next door to the bar they were at.

John said: “We were having fun, starting to relax, when we saw there was a wedding next door. We figured we’d crash it.”

At first, guests didn’t realise the actors – who were both TV stars in the late 70s, when the nuptials took place – were the real stars of shows ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ and ‘Mork and Mindy’.

John, 55, added: “They figured out who we were. Some guy yelled out, ‘Hey, they really are Mork and Vinnie Barbarino!’ ”

The pair were reunited on the set of their latest film, comedy ’Old Dogs’, but their off-the-wall antics and on-set jokes proved too much for some of their co-stars to cope with.

John’s wife Kelly Preston, who plays Robin’s love interest in the movie, said: “The hardest part of being in a scene with any of these guys was not laughing and ruining every single take.

“And if you did laugh, the director just let us go with it, because they’re going to be goofy and try to make you laugh.”

‘Old Dogs’ – which is released next March – follows a pair of ageing sports stars played by John and Robin who are charged with looking after a pair of seven-year-old twins Robin’s character never realise

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