Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, a lawyer from Grand Bahamas, was accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta and taking advance of his son’s death. The senator resigned on Saturday and vowed that she would prove her innocence. She said that she considered all the charges to be unfair and untrue, thus she would fight in proving so.

Without giving further details, Sen. Bridgewater said in a statement released after she had resigned that she couldn’t possibly understand how the innocent actions she had taken could have been so “misconstrued, so perversely twisted to mean something other than it was.”

True or not, the senator couldn’t be reached for comments. According to police reports, Travolta had previously filed a complaint of alleged extortion, but didn’t release any further information of the attempted plot.

He returned home to Florida together with his wife, actress Kelly Preston, and the ashes of their 16-year-old Jett Travolta. The boy died at the beginning of January 2009 during the vacations he and his family were spending at their house in the Bahamas.

The teenager was found lying on the bathroom floor, but by the time his family took him to the hospital, he was already dead. Supposedly, the boy died because of a seizure provoked by the Kawasaki disease, with whom he had been diagnosed at the age of 2.

Even if Travolta and Preston said that the doctors managed to cure him back then, there are many family friends who stand by the opinion that Jett had behavioral problems. Some said he didn’t spend much time speaking or spending time with kids of his age as his parents had always kept him away from the press and social contacts.

The autopsy made on Jett’s body showed that the cause of death had been the seizure he had suffered and which caused him to fall in the bathroom. Yet, some considered that he might have possibly died because of the head injury he had suffered at falling.

The police arrested Sen. Bridgewater on Thursday after she had been charged of abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort. Still, after paying a $40,000 bail, Bridgewater managed to get out of police custody on Friday morning, threatening to prove her innocence.

Former Prime Minister Perry Christie, the leader of Bridgewater’s opposition party, wrote in a statement that he had felt very sorry for this turn of events but accepted Bridgewater’s resignation. He added that these unfortunate events ask for these kinds of consequences and that the Senator did what she was supposed to do under these circumstances.

Ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and former tourism minister Obie Wilchcomb were also detained by the authorities. The ambulance driver is still in police custody as long as the tourism minister was released and pending further investigation. Lightbourne was the one who helped Travolta in his efforts to revive Jett and Wilchcomb was a friend of the actor who was with him shortly after his 16-year-old’s death.

Both have been detained for extortion.