How Travis Barker's 2008 plane crash helped him kick opioid addiction

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Travis Barker has revealed that he was in the throes of a prescription drug addiction before his plane crash in 2008.The crash, he said, served as his "rehab.""People are always like, 'Did you go to rehab?' " he told Men's Health. "And I [say], 'No, I was in a plane crash.' That was my rehab.

Lose three of your friends and almost die? That was my wake-up call. If I wasn't in a crash, I would have probably never quit."Back in 2008, the private plane Travis was on crashed upon take off in South Carolina.

His friends Chris Baker and Charles "Che" Still were killed, as were the two pilots. Travis and pal Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein escaped the engulfed plane, but Travis was burned on 65 percent of his body.