While Barker said he wasn't much of a drinker, he did smoke"an excessive amount of weed" before the accident and was abusing painkillers so badly he developed osteoporosis and even woke up during surgeries because of his tolerance. After he got out of the hospital following the crash -- his body was covered in burns -- he flushed all his meds down the toilet. He said he'll never do hard drugs again and only drinks occasionally and uses CBD products to manage pain and sleep.
"People are always like, 'Did you go to rehab?' And I [say], 'No, I was in a plane crash,' That was my rehab," he said."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." Barker said he also started seeing a therapist to talk about his PTSD and survivor's guilt, telling the publication he was"dark" at the time."I couldn't walk down the street. If I saw a plane, I was determined it was going to crash," he said,"and I just didn't want to see it."He still hasn't been on a plane since that fateful day, something most would understand but a fear he even admits he's taken to the extreme.
"There's a million things that could happen to me. I could die riding my skateboard. I could get in a car accident. I could get shot. Anything could happen," he said."I could have a brain aneurysm and die. So why should I still be afraid of airplanes?"Barker said that the more time passes and the more times"good stuff" happens in his life, the easier it gets for him.
"It will never make sense why my friends are gone, or the pilots, but all I can do is carry on," he added."I can’t regret anything. I'm 100 percent supposed to be here."
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