Travis Barker Calls The Power Of Love Helps Him Overcome Fear Of Flying

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JAKARTA - Travis Barker said the "love force" helped him overcome his fear of flying.

The Blink-182 drummer refused to travel by plane for years after he was involved in an accident in 2008, which left four people dead.

The crash left two aircraft pilots and two of the four passengers instantly dead his assistant Chris Baker and security guard CharlesChe Still.

Barker and fellow passenger Adam 'DJ AM' Goldstein suffered serious injuries as a result of the accident, and the latter died one year later from an overdose.

Barker then spent 11 weeks in hospital, undergoing 26 surgery and a number of skin grafts.

Now, he is open about how to deal with his fear of flying and praising his wife Kourtney Kardashian for helping him travel by plane again.

I think the power of love really helps me, he told The Los Angeles Times (via Radio X). Kourt helps me so I dare to travel by plane again, my children are now flying. He heals us.

He continued, although now he can travel by plane and no longer force to tour by ship he still feels stressed on every trip.

"It takes a small part of my life every time I fly," he explained. The amount of stress and anxiety it causes is truly unbearable."

This brings out a long trauma, and sometimes I think, 'Is this worth it?' But I also don't like something disturbing me I don't like feeling scared, and I don't like it. I don't like things from my past controlling my future.

His discussions about the fear of flying come just weeks after the pop-punk drummer paid tribute to those who died on the flight in 2008.