In his 2015 memoir titled 'Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums', the Blink-182 drummer admitted that he thought the SKIMS founder was 'f**king hot.'
- Oct 30, 2023
AceShowbiz - Travis Barker has had enough of people bringing him up in Kourtney Kardashian and Kim Kardashian's sisterly feud. Although he had a crush on the SKIMS founder nearly two decades ago, the Blink-182 drummer insisted that there's nothing more going on between him and Kim as he's now married to Kourtney.
"You give people a little information and they think they've solved the mystery of 'this is why they're fighting,' " the 47-year-old said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, reflecting on the mention he made of Kim in his memoir. "It's just so ridiculous."
"It's like, 'Kourtney's fans are worried about Travis. He's a womanizer.' Stop it," the musician told the publication. "I obviously shared all that stuff because I wanted to move past it. It was therapeutic for me."
In the book, titled "Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums", Travis admitted that he thought Kim was "f**king hot." He also confessed that he kept "secretly checking [her] out" despite the fact that he was dating Paris Hilton at the time.
"She was working as Paris's closet girl," Travis penned. "She would grab Paris's bags, put them in the closet, unpack them, put everything where Paris could find it."
"We all checked into our hotel and then rented bicycles and rode all over Amsterdam - that's what you do there. It was me, Lil Chris, my drum tech Daniel, Paris, and Kim. We all got high as a kite at a coffee shop," the father of two added. "Then we rode over to the Absinthe Bar, and then the red-light district... I was having a blast and was happy to let the world know it. I kept on secretly checking out Kim, telling Lil Chris, 'I don't care if she's the closet girl, she's f**king hot.' "
Travis mentioned that at that time, his marriage to Shanna Moakler was on the rocks. "Our relationship was just as toxic as ever, and we had the same argument over and over," he disclosed. "If I was with her, I wanted us to stay home with the kids. Then we'd fight, and Shanna would go out and party, so I'd go out too."
Noting that he started talking with Kim during his "time off" with Shanna, Travis explained, "We had stayed in touch after Amsterdam, and she did some modeling for [my brand] Famous. I hired Estevan Oriol to shoot a whole ad campaign of her in bathing suits. Kim's [sex] tape had come out and she had broken up with Ray J." He continued, "She wanted to do a reality show, because she thought her family was interesting. And obviously she was right. I respected her hustle."
