Tragic Details About Travis Barker

Publish date: 2024-05-03

According to his memoir, Travis Barker inherited his mother's fear of flying; as he shared with Vice, he even told others that he believed would someday die in a plane crash. In September of 2008, Barker boarded a private jet in South Carolina with his assistant, Chris Baker, his bodyguard, Charles Monroe Still, Jr., and fellow musician and friend Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein. And while Barker always grew nervous before flying, this time was different. As the drummer recalled to Billboard, he called his father before takeoff and eerily proclaimed, "Pops, I have a really strange feeling about this one. Something just tells me it's not right. ... I love you, and if anything happens, make sure the kids are taken care of."

Then, disaster struck. As Today recalled, the aircraft "skidded off the runway and burst into flames after striking an embankment." Tragically, both pilots, Chris Baker, and Charles Monroe Still, Jr. were killed upon impact. Barker and Goldstein somehow managed to escape the wreckage.

Travis Barker's nightmare was far from over. As he said in Salon, "Sixty-five percent of my body burned, plus 27 surgeries over a four month span." And the healing process was anything but easy. Barker told Vice, "I think I woke up during 11 out of 27 surgeries. I woke up swinging on doctors, not even knowing what was happening, just waking up in the most extreme excruciating pain." The pain became so unbearable that Barker became suicidal and asked a friend to end his life.

If you or anyone you know is having suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

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