Travis Barker’s daughter, Alabama Barker, is setting the record straight after her hospitalization for nicotine withdrawal made headlines.
“I just want to clarify that I was not in the hospital this month or last,” the 19-year-old aspiring musician wrote in a since-deleted post on her Instagram Story Tuesday.
“The situation occurred some time ago, and I was there for about three hours before being discharged. They provided me with a nicotine patch and an inhaler, and that’s all.”
“Let’s please avoid spreading any rumors and focus on moving forward. Thank you,” she concluded.
TMZ reported Monday that Alabama was recently hospitalized due to nicotine withdrawal and that she called the ambulance herself.
Per the outlet, she abruptly quit vaping cold turkey, which made her feel “panicked and unwell.”
The teen — whose dad is married to Kourtney Kardashian — was reportedly encouraged by folks in the music industry to stop vaping to maintain her voice and take her budding rap career more seriously.
In 2023, Alabama defended her dream of becoming a rapper after people trolled her music.
“I’m tired of people saying I don’t know anything about rap music, I wasn’t raised around rap music, I wasn’t anything,” she reportedly said in a since-deleted TikTok.”
She then displayed photos of herself posing alongside some of the genre’s biggest names, such as Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne and A$AP Ferg.
“Since I could walk, I was in the music industry,” Alabama continued. “I was watching my dad perform in punk bands, rock bands, in rap concerts, everything.”
“So, for the people that say, ‘Oh, she doesn’t know anything about rap music … I’ve been influenced by rap my entire upbringing and punk rock.”
Earlier this month, Alabama — who celebrated her birthday on Christmas Eve — released a music video for her song “Vogue,” which showed her and her stepmom, Kardashian, pulling up to a runway event with loads of cash.
Her famous father also made a guest appearance in the video as a runway model.
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