Travis Barker is showing his love and appreciation for his “amazing” wife Kourtney Kardashian who has been helping him heal from his past traumatizing experience.
On Wednesday, the Blink-182 drummer shared a post on the new Threads app and said, “Just flew for the 30th time since my plane crash.” He added, Wouldn’t be able to tour or enjoy life again the way I do without the healing love of my amazing wife. I love you @kourtneykardash.”
As many fans are aware, on Sept. 19, 2008, the 47-year-old entertainer survived a plane crash that occurred while flying back to Los Angeles from South Carolina. At the time, he was traveling with assistant, Chris Baker, security guard, Charles “Che” Still, and his best friend, Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein. Sadly, Baker and Still died in the crash, along with both of the pilots. Although Goldstein survived the plane crash, he died a year later from a prescription drug overdose.
While appearing on the Joe Rogan Podcast back in 2019, he recalled the traumatizing moment: “When I jumped through the emergency exit when the plane blew up, I was in such a hurry to exit the plane, I jumped right into the jet, which is full of fuel,” he explained at the time. “My whole body lit up. I had jet fuel in my whole body.”
Barker sustained third-degree burns on more than half of his body and underwent 27 separate surgeries to repair the damage. He was in the hospital for 11 weeks after the plane crash.
What’s even more crazy about all of this is that Barker told Larry King in a 2016 interview that he had a bad feeling about the flight before boarding.
“[Alabama] was hysterically crying that she didn’t want me to fly that day. She said, ‘The roof is going to come off,’ and I was like, ‘What happened? Was there an earthquake this morning? What triggered this?’ She just kept screaming it and crying it.”
As scary as that all was, Barker overcame his big fear in 2021 after he joined the Poosh founder for a flight to Cabo on her sister Kylie Jenner’s private jet. Barker previously told NYLON that Kourtney made him feel “invincible.”
“[Traveling is] still something very new to me, but having something that gives me the strength and hope to be able to overcome things that were so traumatic in my life, it just says a ton,” he said.
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Back in June, Kourtney Kardashian announced that she and Barker are pregnant with their first child. Kardashian, 44, confirmed the news to her more than 222 million followers on Instagram about her and Barker, 47, who she married last year.
Between the two, the couple are already parents to a total of six children. Kardashian has three children with her former partner Scott Disick — 8-year-old Reign Aston, 13-year-old Mason Dash, and 10-year-old Penelope Scotland — while Barker also has three children of his own with ex Shanna Moakler — 19-year-old Landon,17-year-old Alabama, and 24-year-old stepdaughter Atiana.
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