Alabama Barker Sets Record Straight on Hospitalization for Nicotine Usage

For those still in need of a New Year’s resolution, allow Alabama Barker to make a suggestion. 

“Let’s please avoid spreading any rumors,” she wrote on her Instagram Story Dec. 31, “and focus on moving forward.” 

Travis Barker and ex Shanna Moakler‘s 19-year-old daughter typed out the message to clear up any smoke about her health. With outlets reporting that the teen—one of the Blink-182 drummer’s three kids with the beauty pageant title holder—had been hospitalized for nicotine withdrawal, she informed her 2.1 million followers, “I just want to clarify that I was not in the hospital this month or last.” 

She did, however, acknowledge that she previously sought out medical treatment. 

“The situation occurred some time ago, and I was there for about three hours before being discharged,” she wrote. And while she didn’t discuss a reported decision to stop vaping, the singer added, “They provided me with a nicotine patch and an inhaler, and that’s all.”