Travis Barker says 2008 airplane crash compelled him to cease abusing opioids
The Blink-182 drummer was hooked on opioids on the time of the accident which killed Barker’s shut mates Chris Baker and Charles “Che” Nonetheless, along with the 2 pilots. Barker’s buddy Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein additionally survived.
They had been returning house from a present in South Carolina when the airplane’s tires burst upon takeoff.
“Persons are at all times like, ‘Did you go to rehab?’ ” Barker informed Males’s Well being. “And I [say], ‘No, I used to be in a airplane crash.’ That was my rehab. Lose three of your folks and virtually die? That was my wake-up name. If I wasn’t in a crash, I might have in all probability by no means stop.”
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The musician was within the hospital for 11 weeks and revealed his opioid tolerance was so excessive he would get up throughout surgical procedures.
Barker’s burns coated 60 p.c of his physique and he underwent 26 surgical procedures and a number of pores and skin grafts. He additionally needed to relearn how one can stroll.
Travis Barker survived a airplane crash in 2008 that killed 4 individuals.
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“I used to be informed I wasn’t going to run once more as a result of I had so many grafts on my toes, and there was even discuss of me by no means enjoying the drums once more,” Barker recalled. “As quickly as I might stroll, I might run. As quickly as I might transfer my fingers and my fingers healed, I used to be enjoying drums. And now I’m in higher form than I’ve ever been.”
The 45-year-old is now vegan and runs and packing containers day by day however suffers from PTSD. He described the time after the crash as “darkish.”
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“I couldn’t stroll down the road. If I noticed a airplane [in the sky], I used to be decided it was going to crash, and I simply didn’t wish to see it,” he stated.
Barker additionally sought remedy to assist take care of his survivor’s guilt. “It’s gotten higher the additional I get away from it,” he admitted. “The nearer I used to be to it, it felt like I used to be nearer to the dangerous stuff than I’m to the great things. I felt nearer to the expertise of making an attempt to flee, [to] being in an accident and being burned, making an attempt to seize my mates from a burning airplane. That haunted me for a very long time. And so long as I used to be nearer to that than this great things, I used to be at all times eager about that.”
The rocker is now in a brand new relationship with Kourtney Kardashian. They began relationship in February.
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Kardashian shares three kids — Mason, 11, Penelope, 8, and Reign, 6 — together with her ex, Scott Disick. Barker, in the meantime, shares two kids — Landon, 17, and Alabama, 15 — together with his ex-wife Shanna Moakler. Barker was additionally beforehand married to Melissa Kennedy.
