Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker says he offered his friends $1m to kill him after he was involved in a plane crash that left him with severe burns across 65% of his body.
In September 2008, Barker was on board a jet that crashed shortly after taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina.
Four of the six passengers on board were killed instantly. The fifth, musician DJ AM, who was travelling with Barker, survived the crash but died a little under a year later of a drug overdose, mixing cocaine with prescription pain medication he had been given after the incident.
Following the crash, Barker was in hospital for four months, and had to have 27 surgeries. He was burned severely across 65% of his body.
Speaking about the incident on ABC News, Barker revealed that he begged his friends to end his life.
“I would call friends of mine and go, ‘You know, I’ll deposit a million dollars into whoever’s bank account’. [Hospital staff] had to take my phone out of my room,” he said.
He said that the thing keeping him balanced was his children, but he grew concerned after his son Landon wouldn’t stop drawing pictures of aeroplanes at school.
“It was definitely something that he was old enough to understand,” he admits, adding that his daughter, Alabama, told him before he boarded the plane that she had a feeling “the roof would come off”.
