Travis Barker recalled the eerie premonition his daughter, Alabama Barker, had before he survived a plane crash in 2008 that killed four people.
During Monday’s episode of Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast, the Blink-182 drummer opened up about the fateful moment he shared with his daughter before he hopped on a flight to perform a show near the University of South Carolina in September 2008.
“I say bye to Bama. She’s young at the time, she’s like 3 or 4 years old,” Travis, now 50, recalled. “She’s like, ‘Dad, don’t go!’ She’s bawling, and she doesn’t usually do that.”
Travis Barker (pictured above) recalled the story about his daughter, Alabama Barker, having an eerie premonition ahead of his traumatic plane crash in 2008. Instagram/JayShetty
The Blink-182 drummer said that Alabama (seen above), who was around 3 or 4 at the time, told her dad not to leave and kept saying, “The roof’s gonna come off.” alabamaluellabarker/Instagram
“She’s like, ‘The roof’s gonna come off,’ and I’m like, ‘What is she talking about?’”
The “All the Small Things” rocker explained that he tried bailing on the concert, but his manager wouldn’t let him.
“I was just so content with being home with the kiddos, and he’s like, ‘Bro, you can’t cancel this late,’” he remembered. “So, I ended up flying out there.”
“She’s like, ‘Dad, don’t go!’ She’s bawling, and she doesn’t usually do that,” Travis (seen above in 2008) remembered. Getty Images
The drummer (pictured here with Alabama and son Landon in 2009) revealed he also had “an awful feeling” about the flight when he saw the “small” plane. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Travis said he was supposed to fly home the day after the concert, but because everyone he was with “was in a hurry to get home,” they booked a private plane “super last-minute.”
That also meant he couldn’t ask his routine questions about the pilots or the maintenance of the plane.
The musician explained that when he and his group pulled up to the “small” plane, he was immediately fearful for the trip.
“I’m like, ‘This can’t be our plane. There’s no way.’ And they’re like, ‘Yep, this is the plane,’” he shared.
Travis (pictured above with Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, who was on the flight and also survived) said the group took a private plane “last-minute” after a show near the University of South Carolina. Michael Loccisano
The musician recalled not having time to ask routine questions about the flight before the group took off. Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Travis also recalled calling his dad and expressing that he had “an awful feeling,” but his father convinced him to get on board.
“[I] got on the plane but I knew something feels off,” he remembered. “I even told my dad, ‘If something happens to me, please make sure the kids are taken care of.’ I was saying way too much. All the signs were there.”
Travis was traveling with his assistant Chris Baker, security guard Charles “Che” Still and his close friend Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein.
Travis called his dad (pictured together above) right before he got on the plane. travisbarker/Instagram
The “All the Small Things” rocker (seen above with Alabama) told his dad, “If something happens to me, please make sure the kids are taken care of.” Getty Images for boohooMAN
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Both Baker and Still died in the crash, along with both of the pilots. Travis and Goldstein were the only two who survived. Goldstein died a year later from a prescription drug overdose.
Travis, meanwhile, was in the hospital for 11 weeks after sustaining third-degree burns on more than half of his body. He underwent 27 separate surgeries to repair the damage.
The rocker — who shares Alabama, 20, and son Landon, 22, with his ex-wife, Shanna Moakler — did not fly for the next 13 years, until he traveled to Mexico with wife Kourtney Kardashian in August 2021.
Travis’ assistant, security guard and both of the pilots were killed in the crash. Tribune News Service via Getty Images
Goldstein survived the crash but died a year later from a prescription drug overdose. (Travis is seen here at Goldstein’s funeral in 2009.) Getty Images
Travis noted on Shetty’s podcast that if he felt unsafe about a plane today, he’d handle things much differently than he did back then.
“Now older me would just say, ‘I think I’m not gonna get on the plane,’” he said. “Everything was there. And I never felt like that before.”
This isn’t the first time Travis has spoken about the traumatic experience. He previously revealed how Alabama predicted the tragic plane crash in his 2015 memoir, “Can I Say.”
“[She] just kept saying, ‘The roof’s gonna come off, Dad, the roof’s gonna come off,” he wrote in his book.
