MUSICIAN TRAVIS BARKER, best-known as the drummer for pop-punk icons Blink-182, offered friends $1 million to pull the plug on him after he was involved in an horrific plane crash.
The crash in September 2008 left four people dead, the two pilots and Barker’s bodyguard and assistant.
Speaking to ABC News in the US, the drummer spoke about the pain he was in after the accident, saying that it robbed him of his will to live.
The plane’s on fire and my hands are on fire so I unbuckle my seat belt and I jump right into the jet, which holds all the fuel. I basically ignite my whole body in fire.
“I’m so soaked in jet fuel, there’s nothing I can do to put the fire out.”
“I’m completely nude at this point…I’m running, grabbing my testicles, my genitals, because, I don’t know why, and then we realize, you know, we’re out of the plane and…the plane explodes.”
The drummer, who has released a book about his life entitled Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death and Drums, Drums, Drums, says that the four months in hospital and 27 surgeries made him want to die.
“They had to take my phone out of my room because I was making these phone calls.
I would call friends of mine and go, ‘You know, I’ll deposit a million dollars into whoever’s bank account. Like, I’m done’.
In the book, Barker says he was helped through the ordeal by his children Alabama and Landon.
Barker says that he will not fly now unless his children ask him. He skipped the band’s Australian tour in 2013 and travelled by boat to the 2012 European tour.
“I don’t want it to be a handicap for [my kids].
“I lose sleep over it, but if and when they say they want to do it, I’m going to do it.”
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