Josh Brolin saw John Travolta use Scientology techniques on Marlon Brando in Barbra Streisands living room

From the sudden death of his mother to an uphill battle with addiction, Josh Brolin’s 56 years of life have been filled with heartache, turmoil and oftentimes surreal moments. In his newly released memoir, “From Under the Truck,” the “Goonies” actor opens up about his rocky upbringing, the ins and outs of his alcoholism, fatherhood and various out-of-this-world experiences, including the time he says he witnessed John Travolta heal Marlon Brando in stepmother Barbra Streisand’s living room during a dinner party. “I had been invited to a dinner with John Travolta; Kelly, his gorgeous and uber-pleasant wife; Marlon Brando; a redhead Marlon had met on the internet; my pops and his wife, Barbra (a singer),” Brolin wrote.“I was twenty-seven years old and the whole reason I got into acting was because of the early films I had watched starring Marlon and the late James Dean (who, incidentally, died from an automobile accident on the outskirts of my hometown of Paso Robles and ended up in the same morgue that my mother would just months before the fortieth anniversary of his death).”“Wow.

I was going to meet the Marlon Brando,” he recalled thinking at the time.“When [Marlon] stepped from the car and stood up, he reached down and pulled up his pant leg.Under it was blood running down his leg,” he continued.

“He explained that he had stopped to help some people pull their cars from a landslide on the Pacific Coast highway, and when he tried to pull a cat out of some mud, it got traction and the bumper hit his leg.”Brolin said it was at that point he heard Travolta, a longtime and well-known Scientologist, say, “I just got to the next level!”“Marlon sauntered up to John and John to Marlon and they gave each other an ebullient hug,” he wrote.“John excitedly told Marlon how he had just completed a [Scientology] course on healing and that he could help him.

John grabbed Marlon softly by the hand and led him inside, toward Barbra’s ...