In a new interview with Men's Health, musician Travis Barker opened up about his struggles with PTSD after surviving a 2008 plane crash that took the lives of 4 others, including 2 of his good friends. 
The longtime Blink-182 drummer says the experience is also what convinced him to get sober after years of smoking an 'excessive' amount of weed and using prescription drugs.
'If I wasn’t in a crash, I would have probably never quit,' Barker said.
Despite surviving the plane crash, Barker was badly burned in the incident and required 26 surgeries and 11 weeks of hospitalization in its aftermath.
Despite surviving the plane crash, Barker was badly burned in the incident and required 26 surgeries and 11 weeks of hospitalization in its aftermath.
He told Men's Health that the experience continues to weigh on his mental health. 'I couldn’t walk down the street. If I saw a plane [in the sky], I was determined it was going to crash, and I just didn’t want to see it,' Barker said.
Barker told Men’s Health he might get on a plane again someday and looks forward to sharing the experience with his children.
‘I have all the love I need in my house,' Barker said, referring to his family. 'It will never make sense why my friends are gone, or the pilots, but all I can do is carry on. I can’t regret anything. I’m 100 percent supposed to be here.’
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